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If we accept and internalize the fact of our own mortality, then, by definition, we have to deal with the essential questions of how we… — Surya Das
All our moments are last moments. We abide in the forever leaving of our own coming? We can put our hands together, palm to palm,… — Jens Jensen
America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own. — John Quincy Adams
The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts. — Richard Alleine
If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail… — Oswald Chambers
Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer, but how necessary… — Thomas Brooks
When the Labor Department is forced to relent and let these visitors do this work it is of course all legal. But it makes one… — Ronald Reagan
What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own… — Mario Puzo
It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others. — Jawaharlal Nehru
I am as certain as I am standing here, that the secret of much mischief to our own souls, and to the souls of others,… — Alexander Whyte
The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear… — Dick Cheney
A terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event [will occur] somewhere in the Western world - it may be in the United States of America - that causes… — Tommy Franks
The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great… — Salman Rushdie
It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts. — Teresa of Avila
We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities. — Henri Frederic Amiel
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence. — Aristotle
Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for… — James A. Baldwin
We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories, for all our differences,… — Barbara Deming
We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is… — Jonathan Kozol
The challenge of this age is to resist and conquer in each of our own beings the racist brainwashing that is still active in our… — Unknown Author
I'm generally never at a lack for words, but it's indescribable how poor the response was from our own government officials, ... We could have… — Hannibal
To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing down barriers and… — William J. Clinton
Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom — Frederick Douglass

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