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• We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.

  ― Billy Childish
  English painter, author, poet and photographer (1959 - )
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• We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

  ― Alexander Pope
  English poet (1688 - 1744)
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• We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
  

  ― Stephen R. Covey
  American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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• We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

  ― Anthony Eden
  British politician (1897 - 1977)
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• We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

  ― Albert Camus
  French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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• We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

  ― E. M. Forster
  English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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• We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

  ― A. W. Tozer
  American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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• We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

  Source: First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1861

  ― Abraham Lincoln
  American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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• We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

  ― Richard Buckminster Fuller
  American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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• We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.

  ― T. S. Eliot
  British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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• We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.

  ― Stephen R. Covey
  American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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• We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

  ― William Hazlitt
  English writer (1778 - 1830)
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• We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

  ― Abraham H. Maslow
  American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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• We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

  ― Alan Turing
  English mathematician and computer scientist (1912 - 1954)
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• We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.

  ― Queen Victoria
  Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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• We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

  ― Tony Benn
  British Labor politician (1925 - 2014)
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• We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.

  ― Jean Rostand
  French writer (1894 - 1977)
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• We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

  ― Dag Hammarskjöld
  Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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• We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

  ― Douglas Macarthur
  American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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• We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

  ― Samuel Beckett
  Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• ridiculousness
• possibilities
• statistician
• battle-field
• successfully
• hearthstone

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