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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
What's important is for us to be aware that our actions have repercussions.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was no way we'd ever get spoiled. Daddy made sure to instill in us a work ethic.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever there was a show like 'Calamity Jane,' me and my siblings would be plonked on stage in a costume because it was easier to have us in it rather than sort out babysitters.
- Exceedingly
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bottom line is, our law enforcement is tasked with protecting us from harm - not with creating it by levying penalties for 'offenses' that present no real risk to anyone.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our supermarkets sell us horsemeat as beef, our politicians fiddle their expenses, and our bankers risk money that isn't theirs. So it's not surprising the public don't trust anyone or anything.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
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- Nov 07, 2020