- Freedom
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, outward-moving bunch of people, but we don't understand that much about ourselves or how other people perceive us.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Healthy, sustainable food production methods give us food that is nutritionally better and with fewer pesticides, antibiotics, and hormones.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think the lottery changed everything for us. Once we got Sidney, it helped us turn this franchise around overnight.
- European Union
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will be Madame Frexit if the European Union doesn't give us back our monetary, legislative, territorial, and budget sovereignty.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're going to reserve our efforts and our national solidarity for the most humble, the most modest, and the most poor among us.
- Fundamentalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Islamic fundamentalism is attacking us at home.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no point in us designing synthetic laboratories that could just as well be in Dusseldorf or Helsinki. San Francisco has its light, which must be used.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.
- Good Lord
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.
- Nov 07, 2020