L Quotes
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“Let us try to recognize the precious nature of each day.”
“Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.”
“Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.”
Source: The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition
“Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.”
“Let us try what love will do.”
“Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.”
Source: The Passionate Observer: Writings from the World of Nature
“Let us turn now to a study of a small Newfoundland fishing village. Fishing is, in England at any rate – more hazardous even than mining. Cat Harbour, a community in Newfoundland, is very complex. Its social relationships occur in terms of a densely elaborate series of interrelated conceptual universes one important consequence of which is that virtually all permanent members of the community are kin, ‘cunny kin’, or economic associates of all other of the 285 permanent members.
The primary activity of the community is cod fishing. Salmon, lobster, and squid provide additional sources of revenue. Woodcutting is necessary in off-seasons. Domestic gardening, and stints in lumber camps when money is needed, are the two other profitable activities. The community's religion is reactionary. Women assume the main roles in the operation though not the government of the churches in the town. A complicated system of ‘jinking’ – curses, magic, and witchcraft – governs and modulates social relationships.
Successful cod fishing in the area depends upon highly developed skills of navigation, knowledge of fish movements, and familiarity with local nautical conditions. Lore is passed down by word of mouth, and literacy among older fishermen is not universal by any means. ‘Stranger’ males cannot easily assume dominant positions in the fishing systems and may only hire on for salary or percentage. Because women in the community are not paid for their labour, there has been a pattern of female migration out of the area. Significantly, two thirds of the wives in the community are from outside the area. This has a predictable effect on the community's concept of ‘the feminine’. An elaborate anti-female symbolism is woven into the fabric of male communal life, e.g. strong boats are male and older leaky ones are female.
Women ‘are regarded as polluting “on the water” and the more traditional men would not consider going out if a woman had set foot in the boat that day – they are “jinker” (i.e., a jinx), even unwittingly'. (It is not only relatively unsophisticated workers such as those fishermen who insist on sexual purity. The very skilled technicians drilling for natural gas in the North Sea affirm the same taboo: women are not permitted on their drilling platform rigs.)
It would be, however, a rare Cat Harbour woman who would consider such an act, for they are aware of their structural position in the outport society and the cognition surrounding their sex….Cat Harbour is a male-dominated society….Only men can normally inherit property, or smoke or drink, and the increasingly frequent breach of this by women is the source of much gossip (and not a negligible amount of conflict and resentment). Men are seated first at meals and eat together – women and children eating afterwards. Men are given the choicest and largest portions, and sit at the same table with a ‘stranger’ or guest.
Women work extremely demanding and long hours, ‘especially during the fishing season, for not only do they have to fix up to 5 to 6 meals each day for the fishermen, but do all their household chores, mind the children and help “put away fish”. They seldom have time to visit extensively, usually only a few minutes to and from the shop or Post Office….Men on the other hand, spend each evening arguing, gossiping, and “telling cuffers”, in the shop, and have numerous “blows” (i.e., breaks) during the day.’
Pre-adolescents are separated on sexual lines. Boys play exclusively male games and identify strongly with fathers or older brothers. Girls perform light women's work, though Faris indicates '. . . often openly aspire to be male and do male things. By this time they can clearly see the privileged position of the Cat Harbour male….’. Girls are advised not to marry a fisherman, and are encouraged to leave the community if they wish to avoid a hard life. Boys are told it is better to leave Cat Harbour than become fishermen....”
Source: Men in Groups
“Let us turn our thoughts today to Martin Luther King and recognize that there are ties between us, all men and women living on the Earth. Ties of hope and love, sister and brotherhood, that we are bound together in our desire to see the world become a place in which our children can grow free and strong. We are bound together by the task that stands before us and the road that lies ahead. We are bound and we are bound.”
“Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.”
“Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.”
“Let us turn to you: my sisters in suffering, my companions in the trenches. History calls you wicked. Society calls you evil. But I call you what you truly are: martyrs in yoga pants.”
Source: Dear Evil Stepmother: A Wicked Little Handbook for the Women Fairy Tales Got Dead Wrong
“Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.”
“Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.”
“Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.”
“Let us unite the two so long divided, knowledge and vital piety.”
“Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. Smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all. Do it for peace.”
“Let us use our best intelligence to come out of the intelligence, and to investigate and intuit the mind for claiming wisdom for soul-realization.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“Let us use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems without relying on prayers and wishful thinking. When we have faith in ourselves, we will find we do not have to have faith in gods.”
“Let us use words carefully, because words can betray and kill.( "A gap of silence")”
“Let us visualise that you are terrified and afraid of evil or demons, but will those creatures live forever too?”
Source: Sinless
“Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.”
“Let us wage a moral and political war against the gross wealth and income inequality... ...let us understand that when we stand together, we will always win.”
“Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.”
“Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores;let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God's right to come.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)
“Let us walk in the light which the LORD God gives us while it is still day.”
“Let us waste no further time looking for the secret of success or the key to happiness. Already the door is open and whosoever will, may enter.”
Source: The Science of Mind: The Definitive Edition
“Let us watch against pride in every shape - pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride of our own goodness. Nothing is so likely to keep a person out of heaven, and prevent them from seeing Christ, as pride. So long as we think we are something we shall never be saved. Let us pray for and cultivate humility; let us seek to know ourselves correctly, and to find out our place in the sight of a holy God.”
“Let us watch against PRIDE in every shapepride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride in our own goodness.”
“Let us watch against unbelief, pride, and self-confidence. If we go forth in our own strength, we shall faint, and utterly fall; but, waiting on the Lord, out of weakness we shall be made strong. Having our hearts and our hopes in heaven, we shall be carried above all difficulties, and be enabled to press forward and lay hold of the prize of our high calling in Christ Jesus.”
“Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves.”
“Let us weave the threads of conservation into the fabric of our society, ensuring a strong foundation for the future.”
“Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.”
“Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.”
“Let us welcome the New Year with a holy hearts.”
“Let us wish that the speed granted by our technologies saves us plenty of time for life ahead...Yet, where to is this destination of life that makes the observation of it so dreadful? The impatient people who rush for the new are like fools chasing a mirror, wondering whose face they’d find when they catch it. Nothing awaits us. Convenience will one day reveal that we have nowhere to go, except towards each other.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.”
Source: Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America: Published in September, 1796
“Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
Source: Elements of useful knowledge: containing a historical and geographical account of the United States
“Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.”
“Let us work in partnerships between rich and poor to improve the opportunities of all human beings to build better lives.”
“Let us work together for unity and love.”
“Let us work without desire for name or fame or rule over others. Let us be free from the triple bonds of lust, greed of gain, and anger. And this truth is with us!”
Source: Complete Works
“Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.”
Source: Candide
“Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.”
Source: The Portable Voltaire
“Let us worry about beauty first, and truth will take care of itself.”
“Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit.”
Source: Complete Works
“Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by 2015 will be only a pipe dream.”
“Let us, at any rate, give heed to suffer joyfully the crosses that God sends us, because they all, if we are saved, will become for us eternal joys. When infirmities, pains, or any adversities afflict us, let us lift up our eyes to heaven and say, "One day all these pains will have an end, and after them I hope to enjoy God forever."”
“Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj.”
Source: Hindu Dharma
“Let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.”
“Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares,
And think perchance they'll sell; if not,
The lustre of the better yet to show
Shall show the better.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: All 214 Plays, Sonnets, Poems & Apocryphal Plays (Including the Biography of the Author): Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, The Tempest, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errorsäó_