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All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with… — Richard von Weizsaecker
The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical. — Henry Taube
Always define WHAT you want to do with your life and WHAT you have to offer to the world, in terms of your favorite talents/gifts/skills-not… — Richard Nelson Bolles
In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated merchants… — Jack Weatherford
Do women dress for men or women? I’ve always wondered why that eternally provocative question is put in terms of approval - as if the… — Nancy Friday
According to Jains the soul in pure form has infiniteness in terms of its knowledge and power. These faculties are obstructed for its exhibition due… — Virchand Gandhi
I wanted to distance myself from those pasty faced corpses in suits I saw in airline magazine ads. If I was going to become a… — Yvon Chouinard
I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string… — Jonny Greenwood
If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of… — Johan Huizinga
We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms. — Charles Schumer
Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically teaches viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are, that we are… — Alain de Botton
To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose the ability to… — Val Plumwood
It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away — Anne Tyler
If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas… — Namie Amuro
To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the… — Vaclav Klaus
Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the… — Rockwell Kent
Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed.… — Norman Rockwell
You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a… — Guy Finley
In terms of effect on the world, it's very good that I've lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and… — Richard Stallman
If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms. — Alex Lifeson
In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians,… — James Weldon Johnson
I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money. — Leonard Baskin
Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel… — Audre Lorde
Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had… — Unknown Author
It was about the preciousness of that, and how they viewed those birds as art, as something valuable. I didn't care one way or another… — Nick Cave

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