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We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
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We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely.
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We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.
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We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.
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We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty - that is the test of living.
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We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.
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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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We could not guess how different from us they (extraterrestrials) might be. It was hard enough to guess the intentions of our elected representatives in Washington.
Contact (1985) Ch. 3 (p. 48) -
We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.
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We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.
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We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it.
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We did some cool wire work in 'The Pact' - they had me strapped to a harness underneath my shirt so they could fling me around the house and slam me into doors. I definitely got some bruises even with all the padding!
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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct - unity of purpose.
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We do not owe allegiance to any candidate because they share our party or our color, but because they share our principles and our conscience.
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We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
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We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It's a question of time, not motive.
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We don't get typhoons in December. They normally end by September. A typhoon happening in October is considered a late event.
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We don't take care of our teachers and our cops and our firemen. They should be at the top of our list.
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