O Quotes
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“Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.”
“Our American government has strayed too far from American values. It is time to move forward. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.”
“Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.”
“Our American heritage is threatened as much by our own indifference as it is by the most unscrupulous office or by the most powerful foreign threat. The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.”
“Our American past always speaks to us with two voices: the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him? Citizens ask, What do they mean to us? Historians are trained to seek the original meaning; all of us want to know the present meaning.”
“Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.”
“Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.”
“Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.”
“Our amour fou with 'The Sopranos' is headed for long-term parking, like so many of its most memorable characters. We'll never see a show like this again.”
“Our analyses of the FDA data showed relatively little difference between the effects of antidepressants and the effects of placebos. Indeed, the effects were so small that they did not qualify as clinically significant. The drug companies knew how small the effect of their medications were compared to placebos, and so did the FDA and other regulatory agencies. The companies found various ways to make the data seem more favorable to their products, and the FDA helped them keep their negative data secret. In fact, in some instances, the FDA urged the companies to keep negative data hidden, even when the companies wanted to reveal them. My colleagues and I hadn't really discovered anything new. We had merely revealed their 'dirty little secret'.”
Source: The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
“Our analysis shows that, for the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is virtually no explanation other than climate change. The deadly European heat wave of 2003, the fiery Russian heat wave of 2010 and catastrophic droughts in Texas and Oklahoma last year [2011] can each be attributed to climate change. The odds that natural variability created these extremes are minuscule, vanishingly small. To count on those odds would be like quitting your job and playing the lottery every morning to pay the bills.”
“Our analytical faculties allow us to look critically at our writing and interpret it. Sometimes we make bold, impulsive edits to our poems, but most forms of precision and economy in poetry, it seems to me, are signatures of the analytical mind.”
“Our anatomy is only a transitional phase, a building material for a will older than flesh.”
Source: The Thing: Ancestors of Form
“Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is a pleasant genealogy for mankind.”
Source: Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution
“Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them.”
Source: Memoirs, 1: Correspondence and Private Papers
“Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.”
“Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.”
“Our ancestors are looking for us even if we're not looking for them. And by our ancestors I mean our bloodlines and the ancestors of the place where we live and our spiritual kin who go beyond our biological families. We could be walking around carrying an entire ancestral history of the wrong kind for us.”
“Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges.”
“Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.”
“Our Ancestors came to Australia, foraged for food in a rain forest where AM grew, ate the AM, and suffered the effects of muscimol hallucinations in a cave and drew paintings of a religious nature and these paintings were confirmed at 50,000 years ago, at the exact inception of religion. This was done by a species that never had religion before that. Since the species would therefore have no religious content until they ate the hallucinogens, it follows that these AM were the start of religion.”
Source: Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
“Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was promised to us at birth. Promised? By whom?”
Source: Origins: A Memoir
“Our ancestors did great work for humanity. What will we do for the next generations?”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Our ancestors did not separate magick and witchcraft from their daily lives. Witchcraft was more than just a practice, it was a way of life. A way of looking at the physical and spiritual as a collaborative source of manifestation. In this way, Old World Witchcraft honors the all-encompassing lifestyle of the witch. We are in tune with nature, in tune with ourselves and in alignment with our all-knowing inner witch.”
“Our ancestors had displayed great strengths in space science. What people like Aryabhata had said centuries ago are being recognised by science today. We are a country which had these capabilities. We need to regain them.”
“Our ancestors had to eat whenever food was around. And we're actually still hardwired the same way. The big difference is we don't have to hunt for our food. For us, "hunting" comes down to sliding the milk carton out of the way.”
“Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate.”
“Our ancestors have travelled the iron age; the golden is before us.”
“Our Ancestors knew that healing comes in cycles and circles.
One generation carries the pain so that the next can live and heal.
One cannot live without the other, each is the other's hope, meaning & strength.”
Source: Then She Sang A Willow Song: Reclaiming Life and Power with the Ancestors
“Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.”
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“Our ancestors said to their mother Earth: 'We are yours'. Modern Humanity said to Nature, 'You are mine'. The Green Man has returned as the living face of the whole earth so that through his mouth we may say to the universe: 'We are one'.”
Source: The Blossoming
“Our ancestors used to play with snakes, we play with mouse.”
“Our ancestors went for days without anything to eat, and carbohydrates were extremely scarce for two million years. The truth is, fat is the preferred fuel for human metabolism.”
Source: The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation: A complete, step-by-step, gene reprogramming action plan
“Our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to assume our physiology evolved in association with this diet. The balanced diet for our species was what we could acquire then, not what the government and doctors tell us to eat now.”
“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 we began to consider ourselves the descendants of a monkey.”
“Our ancestors who changed the world did so through new ideas which came to them as they acted.”
“Our ancestors, who were able to survive and reproduce under unimaginably harsh environmental circumstances, refined and perfected the human genetic recipe.”
Source: The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation: A complete, step-by-step, gene reprogramming action plan
“Our ancestors wholeheartedly sacrificed their lives to fight against tyranny, and we are allowing that very same tyranny to exist! Let us open our eyes!”
Source: Naaalala Niyo Ba Ang Noli Me Tangere?
“Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish. It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for we are their children.”
“Our ancestors, when about to build a town or an army post, sacrificed some of the cattle that were wont to feed on the site proposed and examined their livers. If the livers of the first victims were dark-coloured or abnormal, they sacrificed others, to see whether the fault was due to disease or their food. They never began to build defensive works in a place until after they had made many such trials and satisfied themselves that good water and food had made the liver sound and firm, healthfulness being their chief object.”
“Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.”
Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
“Our ancestry streches back through the life forms and into the stars, back into the beginnings of the primeval fireball. This universe is a single multiform energetic unfolding of matter, mind, intelligence and life.”
“Our ancient experience confirms at every point that everything is linked together, everything is inseparable.”
“Our ancient laws expressly declare that those who are but delegates themselves shall not delegate to others powers which require judgment and integrity in their exercise.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.”
“Our anger at heteropatriarchy demands criminal and institutional punishment. But saying ‘fuck the patriarchy’ is hardly radical when this is followed by calling on patriarchal disciplinary power.”
Source: Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism
“Our anger could become a force of deliverance.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“Our anger is moral. Our rage is sacred. Our anxiety contains wisdom. Our hearts are telling
us the truth. If the truth makes others uncomfortable—good. Show me an alarm clock that
makes a sweet sound and I’ll show you an alarm clock I can sleep through.”
Source: Don't Tell Me to Relax: Emotional Resilience in the Age of Rage, Feels, and Freak-Outs
“Our animal friends’ non-reactive and forgiving natures can teach us positive spiritual lessons on a daily basis.”