- Opportunity
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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
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father and my mother were both teachers. They inculcated to us the importance of studies.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.
- Alive
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've all had our highs and lows at different times throughout the years, but the fact that we had these loyal fans that just stayed with us all around the world is what's been able to keep us alive.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artless fairy stories enchant us in our first years and retain their hold on us until our last.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a law of our natures, especially when the political fit is on us, to applaud where we already approve, and deride where we don't.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.
- Clean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb, and by the seals, to all outward appearances that it was intact.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.
- Moving
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is particularly moving, and I can say this also as a Protestant Christian, that a German - one of us - has been made Pope.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020