Quotes 4001 till 4020 of 4570.
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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 coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
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We couldn't place their accents but we thought the smaller one might be Australian since he seemed so at home down under.
Source: Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe -
We desire to throw no one into the shade [in East Asia], but we also demand our own place in the sun.
Source: Speech in Reichstag, 6 December 1897 -
We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.
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We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
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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 hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
Source: A Lonely Rage (1978) -
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.
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We don't protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species.
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We endeavor to avoid censure by concealing our Vices under an Appearance of their opposite Virtues
Source: Joseph Andrews preface -
We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big.
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We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
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We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.
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We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
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We find that other employees are very enthusiastic about their fellow crew members who have disabilities-or what they previously thought of as disabilities.
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We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world.
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We forgive principally for our own sake, so that we may cease to bear the burden of rancour.
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