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We cannot keep turning our backs on gay and lesbian Americans. I have fought too hard and too long against discrimination based on race and… — John E. Lewis
We are here on earth to work-to work long, hard, arduous hours, to work until our backs ache and our tired muscles knot, to work… — Bruce R. McConkie
To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs. — Paul Gillmor
In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of the transcendent, we… — James MacDonald
Hope...which is whispered from PAndora's box only after all the other plauges and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without… — Ian Caldwell
We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the… — Albert Camus
Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up. — Charles L. Allen
There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can't. So we write them down. Or we paint them. Or we sing… — Tiffanie DeBartolo
I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to… — Seth Godin
The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them. What we have… — Maxine Hong Kingston
Style begins with the people passing through oneâ€™s life, the harbingers we push against and the stylemakers we want to clone. Some are famous, some… — Carol Edgarian
I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering. — Marianne Williamson
If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine. — Johannes Tauler
The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American… — Carl T. Rowan
The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. — Mignon McLaughlin
If we deny our awesome challenge; turn our backs on the living universe, and forsake our cosmic destiny, we will commit a crime of unutterable… — Marshall Savage
I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs. — Billy Crudup
Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs - Charles Baudelaire, the flowers of evil, this giant skeleton… — Marilyn Manson
People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our… — Charles Caleb Colton

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