We Began Quotes
77 quotes by 72 authors
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The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder if we ourselves…
— Doris Grumbach
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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of…
— James A. Baldwin
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Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine…
— Ellen Goodman
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There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste…
— William J. Clinton
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How often-even before we began-have we declared a task 'impossible'? And how often have we construed a picture of ourselves as being inadequate?...A great deal…
— Piero Ferrucci
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My wife and I have been together since 1986. I graduated in '86 and she graduated in '88. We began dating when she was 17.…
— Cuba Gooding, Jr.
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We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency. We expected to…
— George Washington
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects…
— Orson Scott Card
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When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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As an engineer, I understood that the natural world operated according to fixed laws. Through my studies, I came to realize that there were, likewise,…
— Charles Koch
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We were determined by public opinions of us. Would we think we existed without outside confirmation? And how long would we live apart from others…
— Doris Grumbach
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As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.
— Abraham Lincoln
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We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but thats no matter. The sea is…
— Tom Robbins
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Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since the time when…
— P D Ouspensky
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We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.
— Pope John Paul II
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I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of…
— Alan Perlis
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Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even get the first idea that there is more to…
— Richard Bach
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From the time we began to build houses and cities, since we invented the wheel, we have not advanced one step toward happiness. We have…
— Jean Giono
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We campaigned across the South . . . without a single catcall or boo. It was not until we got north to New York that…
— Jesse Jackson
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