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  • Walter Benjamin We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Barbara Jordan We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Archibald MacLeish We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.
    Archibald MacLeish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Mark Twain We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • George Bernard Shaw We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Herbert Hoover We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Albert Einstein We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Lord George Byron We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness - but the seal is not yet fixed though the wax is preparing for the impression.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bob Filner We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Benjamin Jowett We have sought truth, and sometimes perhaps found it. But have we had any fun?
    Quoted by Geoffrey Madan
    Benjamin Jowett
    British theologian (1817 - 1893)
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  • Elisabeth Kübler-Ross We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    Swiss-American psychiatrist (1926 - 2004)
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  • Carlo Rubbia We have to be aware that fossil fuel energy sources have an expiry date. A timeframe of 30, 40 or 50 years can seem a long time to get rewards for economic policy, but it's only a short time for implementing a new energy policy.
    Carlo Rubbia
    Italian physicist and inventor (1934 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find out who was right and who was wrong. But we have to go with the best information right now, which I would claim to be the IPCC reports.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Audre Lorde We have too often been expected to speak
    all things to all people and speak everyone else's position
    but our own.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Berthold Auerbach We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Joan Didion We imagine things — that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. ... We have no choice, so we do it.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Germaine Greer We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Brigid Brophy We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.
    Brigid Brophy
    British novelist and critic (1929 - 1995)
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