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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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- Order
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
We each have a sixth sense that is attuned to the oneness dimension in life, providing a means for us to guide our lives in accord with our ideas.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we fall asleep, we withdraw our awareness from its hypnotic fascination with physical sensation, thereby enabling us to listen with our now awakening sixth sense.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
- Asserting
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- Nov 07, 2020
We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.
- Ice
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- Nov 07, 2020
A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.
- Behind
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- Nov 07, 2020
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
- Conscience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
- Gospel
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- Nov 07, 2020