Best We Want Sayings
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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
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We do not write as we want, but as we can.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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There is enough for everyone to have what they need without exploitation. Adequate distribution of resources, including education, without violence can lead to a sustainable…
— Unknown Author
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Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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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
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I'm not sure we will have every single Democrat ... but we want a large number of Republicans to be able to vote for this…
— Charles Schumer
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For one, we very much need in any immigration bill - we need protection for people who are in this country and who have not…
— Ronald Reagan
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We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head.
— Jacob Bronowski
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Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of…
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
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We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying not to persuade…
— William Barclay
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Why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because this world of ours has disappointed us and because failure looms large in our day-to-day life. We…
— Sri Chinmoy
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My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer…
— Shirley Chisholm
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We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
— Desmond Tutu
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What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less…
— Samuel Gompers
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We want to live and love and build a just and peaceful society.
— Betty Williams
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We want to do a lot of stuff; we're not in great shape. We didn't get a good night's sleep. We're a little depressed. Coffee…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Human beings should only use technology which if the worst case happens, it leads to an acceptable damage. Definitely nuclear energy is not in that…
— Hans-Peter Durr
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This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we will have to…
— Tom Robbins
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Bringing together disparate personalities to form a team is like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to ask yourself: what is the whole picture here? We…
— Pat Summitt
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The common denominator is that we want to make the world a better place, for women and for everybody, and we do it through sport.
— Lyn St. James
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Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we…
— Stephen Covey
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We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
— Woodrow Wyatt
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The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity...if we want to see might wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the…
— Hudson Taylor
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We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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