- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Us Quotes
What connects us, from global trade to family memory.
These quotes look at 'us' on very different scales, from once-hostile nations now trading with the world to a shared human truth that everyone carries some private struggle. For quotes about closeness between people, see Connection quotes.
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- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Woodstock is the only thing we have going for us in this part of the state in terms of national recognition. The idea is to extract what was good about Woodstock, repackage it, and present it to Middle America.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us end 'don't ask, don't tell.'
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one I remember is going into London, as it was for us in Essex, on New Year's Eve in 1981. There were four of us and we'd had a few lagers on the way. One of my mates threw up in the Tube and then stood up and fell over in it. We thought it was the funniest thing we'd ever seen.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
My theory is that many of the things that move us are things we long for but find hard to do.
- Animals
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn't hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us.
- Start
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at each other.
- Nov 07, 2020