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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What Americans can't face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction.
- Idle
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.
- Disciplinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries, or disciplinary frontiers.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dogs give us something just as we give something to them.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we were doing 'Viva Variety,' we knew, 'Boy, this really cracks us up, but this is not for everybody. This is a little weird.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing.
- Nov 07, 2020
Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered.
- Stage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Qualifying for the second stage would be a successful World Cup for us. I think we can do it.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020