A Quotes
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“Although we live in a civilised society, the business world remains a jungle.”
“Although we look at ourself as One, in the real world we always experience ourself as TWO.”
“Although we look at ourselves as One, in the real world we always experience ourselves as TWO.”
“Although we lost it has been a great Test and one of the best I have ever played in. Hopefully the next one will be exactly the same.”
“Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.”
“Although we may come from vastly different stories and very different walks of life, we are one people who possess common values and common ideals; who celebrate individual excellence but also share a recognition that together, we can accomplish great and wonderful things we can't accomplish alone.”
“Although we may encounter dark seasons, when we're filled with joy we'll have confident expectations that the sun will soon return and dark clouds will pass.”
Source: Harvest of Hope: Living Victoriously Through Adversity, A 50-Day Devotional
“Although we may face untold numbers that by their sheer mass appear to render us as little more than a speck in the face of them, a single person standing with God amidst any mass will always be an indomitable majority.”
“Although we may have different views, let us continue to forgive, love and respect each other”
“Although we may never touch hands or speak to each other. There is a connection of love between one and his waifu. In dreams or in an other world, those who bond with one will never let go.”
“Although we may not like to hear it, proponents of the Constitution repeatedly insisted that, when it comes to our character, Americans aren't exceptional.”
Source: We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy
“Although we may suffer from idolatry, we do not, I think, suffer from materialism - from the overvaluing of material objects for their own sake. Of this the world accuses us. Yet our very wealth itself has somehow made us immune to materialism - the characteristic vice of impoverished peoples. Instead, our peculiar idolatry is one with which the world till now has been unfamiliar... To flood the world with images of ourselves. It is to these images and not the material objects that we are devoted. No wonder that the puzzled world finds this unattractive and calls it by the name of its own old-fashioned vices.”
Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
“Although we may trust God's promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death.”
“Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul.”
“Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves.”
“Although we often hear that data speak for themselves, their voices can be soft and sly”
Source: Beginning Statistics with Data Analysis
“Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained when evolving pure art and pure science. Let us worship the spine and its tingle.”
Source: Lectures on Literature
“Although we refer to the International Criminal Court, the real problem is the prosecutor, because it's the prosecutor who decides who to investigate and what cases to bring. This court fundamentally embodied a potential for abuse of governmental power that I felt was inconsistent with being a free person - and [it was] inconsistent for a free country like the United States to subscribe to it.”
“Although we refer to the magical ‘books’ of Ancient Egypt, these were in fact scrolls, more often lengths of papyrus stuck together and rolled up, but occasionally parchments of calf vellum. These books were regarded as extremely esoteric, and certainly not for the eyes of common people. Some were said to have been found in secret places, such as forgotten tombs and hidden caskets, and to record the actual words of Thoth or legendary sages and priests. It is likely that the priests considered their own magic to be most effective and sacred, and they kept their knowledge secret in order to make themselves appear more powerful in the eyes of less priveleged individuals. They often wrote down their spells in a kind of code, referring to their ingredients by alternative names in order to confuse any unintiated person who might try to read them.”
Source: Bast and Sekhmet: Eyes of Ra
“Although we seem to be separate individuals, in reality we are all expressions of one primal imagination. We assume we are many, but in fact we are one. And what we do to each other we do to ourselves.”
“Although we should not love our friends for the good that they do us, it is a sign that they do not love us much if they do not do us good when they have the power to do so.”
“Although we sometimes did without a few of life's necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries.”
“Although we strap time to our wrists, stuff it into our pockets, hang it on our walls, a perpetually moving picture for every room of the house, it can still run away, elude and evade, and show itself again only when there are minutes remaining and there is nothing left to do except wait till there are none.”
Source: The Book of Salt: A Novel
“Although we suffer from many of our ancestors' bad habits, they also evolved a motivational system that continues to reward us when we get it right. This is happiness.”
Source: The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy
“Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.”
“Although we tend to think of the brain as a discrete organ - a lump of squidgy tissue - it is better to think of it as part of an elaborate network of nervous tissue that reaches out to every single part of the body.”
Source: Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird
“Although we think of restoration as a science, it's also about creativity. Prairie restoration begins with a vision. The dream of how the land might be healed, imagined in the mind of a steward or site manager.”
Source: Tallgrass Conversations: In Search of the Prairie Spirit
“Although we think of them as extraordinary, miracles also streak across our consciousness every day. We can choose to notice or ignore them, unaware that our destinies may hang in the balance. Tune into the presence of miracles, and in an instant, life can be transformed into a dazzling experience, more wondrous and exciting than we could even imagine. Ignore it, and an opportunity is gone forever.”
“Although we think that we think, most of the time we are being thought by the collective mind, the hypnosis of conditioning.”
“although we very clearly see the sun, we ought not therefore to determine that it is only of the size which our sense of sight presents; and we may very distinctly imagine the head of a lion joined to the body of a goat, without being therefore shut up to the conclusion that a chimaera exists; for it is not a dictate of reason that what we thus see or imagine is in reality existent; but it plainly tells us that all our ideas or notions contain in them some truth.”
Source: Discourse on Method
“Although we want to be close with others, we maintain a distance so we won’t be hurt.”
Source: Reconnect to Love: A Journey From Loneliness to Deep Connection
“Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist.”
“Although we were not able to shatter that highest and hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you it has 18 million cracks in it, and the light is shining through like never before, filling us all with the hope and the sure knowledge that the path will be a little easier next time, and we are going to keep working to make it so, today keep with me and stand for me, we still have so much to do together, we made history, and lets make some more.”
“Although we were not destined to be together, I still pray for you because you were the best and final chapter in my life story. Your impact will always stay with me, even as we go our separate ways.”
“Although, we were trampled, our spirit sustains us.”
“Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it.”
“Although we will hate and fight the machines, we will be supplanted anyway, and rightly so, for the intelligent machines to which we will give birth may, better than we, carry on the striving toward the goal of understanding and using the Universe, climbing to heights we ourselves could never aspire to.”
Source: Past, Present, and Future
“Although we would prefer to tame it, love is less a nice idea and more a commitment to embracing love as far too massive to simply be a nice idea.”
“Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.”
Source: H. M. S. Surprise (Vol. Book 3) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
“Although well played by Billy Zane, Cal in the screenplay is one of the weakest part of the design, and would have been a more effective rival if he were more seductive, a better match for Rose, real competition for Jack, and not such an obvious monster. Then it would have been a real contest, and not a one-sided match between the most attractive young man in the universe and a leering, abusive cad with a bag of money in one hand and a pistol in the other.”
Source: The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers
“Although what I see in the mirror often doesn’t fit who I believe myself to be, that person provides me with everything that I need to be everything that I am. And I have been granted the privilege of spending every minute of my tomorrow with that person.”
“Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China.”
“Although when you look at people that say, from the same culture, roughly the same age, and not very difference intelligence, and you make a lot of detailed questions about the experiences of say colors, situations, and so on, you'll get very similar answers.”
“Although whenever you have intelligent life in the presence of large explosions, a safe bet is that the intelligent life is responsible for the large explosion.”
“Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.”
Source: The Passion
“Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.”
Source: This Charming Man
“Although wine when it is read somewhat lacks the savour of wine when it is drunk, wine remains a very pleasant thing both to read about and to chat about.”
“Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.”
“Although wisdom is called immovable, this does not signify any insentient thing, like wood or stone; it moves as the mind is wont to move - forward or back, to the left, to the right, in the ten directions and to the eight points; and the mind that does not stop at all is called immovable wisdom.”
Source: The unfettered mind: writings of the Zen master to the sword master
“Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.”