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• We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

  ― Susan Sontag
  American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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• We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

  ― Menander of Athens
  Greek dramati poet (342 - 291)
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• We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

  Source: Aaron Siskind: photographs, 1932-1978 (1979 edition)

  ― Aaron Siskind
   
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• We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

  ― Oswald Chambers
  Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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• We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.

  ― Laurence Sterne
  British author (1713 - 1768)
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• We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

  ― Cyril Connolly
  British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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• We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

  ― Richard Henry Stoddard
   
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• We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

  ― Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  French writer (1613 - 1680)
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• We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
  

  ― Winston Churchill
  English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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• we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  ― Norman Macewan
   
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• We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor.

  ― Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  English writer (1874 - 1936)
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• We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

  ― William Butler Yeats
  Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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• We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.

  ― Barney Ross
  American professional boxer (1909 - 1967)
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• We may admit that our groping is often inspired, but we must be on our guard against the belief, however deeply felt, that our inspiration carries any authority, divine or otherwise.

  ― Karl Popper
  Austrian-British philosopher and professor (1902 - 1994)
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• We may be personally defeated, but our principles never.

  ― William Lloyd Garrison
  American abolitionist, journalist and suffragist (1805 - 1879)
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• We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

  ― Thomas Jefferson
  American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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• We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving

  ― Bernard Meltzer
  American professor (1916 - 1998)
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• We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

  ― Martin Luther King
  American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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• We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.
  

  ― Marianne Williamson
  American writer (1952 - )
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• We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

  Source: Twitter (2016)

  ― Kofi Annan
  Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• inconceivable
• photographers
• complaining
• inspiration
• inhabitants
• principles

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