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“We've practiced loving long enough, let's come at last to hate.”

“We've pretended too much in our family, Luke, and hidden far too much. I think we're all going to pay a high price for our inability to face the truth.”

Thinking Faces Pay Too Much Our Family Tides Inability Luke High Prices Facing The Truth

Author:Pat Conroy

Source: The Prince of Tides: A Novel

“we've produced a generation of spiritual panhandlers, begging for coins of wisdom, banging like bums on every closed door...if an old man moves into a shack or a cave and lets his beard grow, people will flock from miles around just to read his "no trespassing" sign”

People Ifs Men Spiritual Moving Grows Generations Doors Miles Old Man Coins Caves Beard Begging Flocks Closed Doors Banging Shack Trespassing

Author:Tom Robbins

“We've protected thousands of people in Libya; we have not seen a single U.S. casualty; there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope.”

People Risk Operations Protected Scope Casualties Libya Escalation

Author:Barack Obama

“We've proved a lot of people wrong so far but the job is not finished yet and if we come home from Istanbul empty handed then it would be a disaster.”

People Ifs Home Would Be Jobs Empty Finished Disaster Coming Home Istanbul

Author:Steven Gerrard

“We've proven to be quite flexible and adept in the way that we've changed what was the original pattern of air activities into something that's now very focused on the battlefield.”

Way Air Changed Activity Originals Patterns Focused Proven Flexibility Flexible Battlefields Adept

Author:Wesley Clark

“We've put huge resources into predicting tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes. HIV/AIDS is like an earthquake that's lasted 30 years and touched every country on the planet. We have such incredible capacity to think about the future, it's time we used it to predict biological threats. Otherwise we'll be blindsided again and again.”

Thinking Years Country Used Planets Huge Resources Capacity Threat Incredibles Aids Touched Again And Again Hurricanes Hiv Earthquakes Predicting Tsunami Hiv Aids

Author:Nathan Wolfe

“We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.”

“We've put songs out on singles and weird little packages that only the real vinyl-philes care about.”

Littles Real Care Song Packages Singles Vinyl

Author:Anthony Kiedis

“We've reached a point where we are not a very empathetic people, and art without empathy is art without an audience. My basic viewpoint is that without art we're alone.”

People Art Audience Empathy Viewpoints Empathetic

Author:Jamake Highwater

“We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.”

Ends Growth Company Economy Revolution Industry Creating Capable Innovation Continuous Learning Incrementalism

Author:Gary Hamel

“We've reached the point where the demand for rules is about to replace the demand for chaos.”

Demand Chaos

Author:Debora Spar

“We've really got to stop looking to Washington to fix our problems. It obviously doesn't have the ability to do that. People who are successful are not successful because of the president.”

People Problem President Ability Successful

Author:Dave Ramsey

“We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.”

Dream Motivational Impossible Our Dreams Black History Ceilings Impossible Dream Glass Ceiling

Author:Jesse Jackson

“We've replaced the proclamation of Christ with an easy-listening legalism of do more and try harder.”

Trying Easy Christ Listening Harder Replaced Proclamation Legalism

Author:R. C. Sproul

“We've restored life where life was extinct. It's no longer sufficient to bring the dead back to life. We must create from the beginning, we must build up our own creature, build it up from nothing.”

Creatures Sufficient

Author:Jimmy Sangster

“We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun.”

Shows Fun Hours Air Goes On Scene Twelve Animated

Author:Matt Stone

“We've run out of good projects. This is not a money issue... If these oil companies had fantastic projects, they'd be out there [developing new fields].”

Ifs Running Company Issues Fields Projects Oil Fantastic Developing Oil Companies Peak Oil

Author:Matthew Simmons

“We've said from the beginning when we traded Richie (Sexson), we're trading home runs for doubles and the ability to manufacture runs... Doubles are almost better. I mean, home runs are great, but when you've got guys who smack those doubles, you're in good shape, you've got a lot of guys in scoring position.”

Mean Said Home Running Guy Ability Position Shapes Trading Home Run Smack

Author:Ned Yost

“We've said to the Iranians all along . . . we still remain open to diplomacy. But it's been very clear that the Iranians don't want to engage with us.”

Want Said Stills Clear Diplomacy

Author:Barack Obama

“We've seen a departure from the traditional work of the National Security Agency. They've become sort of the national hacking agency, the national surveillance agency. And they've lost sight of the fact that everything they do is supposed to make us more secure as a nation and a society.”

Facts Lost Nations Security Sight Traditional Secure Agency National Security Surveillance Departure Hacking

Author:Edward Snowden

“We've seen a great deal of interest from the Occupy movement. It's a diverse movement, not everyone embraces electoral politics, and no one can speak for Occupy.”

Speak Interest Deals Movement Embrace Diverse Occupy Movement

Author:Jill Stein

“We've seen a kind of Donald Trump supporter on steroids, like the hate-crime people. Those people, I don't want to see, like anyone violent or carrying a gun or anything like that. But I won't know if they disagree with me unless they decide to heckle.”

People Ifs Knows Want Kind Hate Crime Trump Gun Violent Disagree Supporter Hate Crime Steroid

Author:Jen Kirkman

“We've seen a lot of data at YC now, and the most successful companies and the ones where the investors do the best... end up giving a lot of stock out to employees- year after year after year.”

Giving Years Ends Company Successful Data Employee Investors Do The Best Successful Company

Author:Sam Altman

“We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland. We know from the French, their wonderfully neurotic presidents, that our hands are sort of tied. The Italians - I don't know where it stops. No nation can claim "We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are." Because it's going on everywhere.”

President Moral Democracy Dirty Ireland Neurotic

Author:Ciaran Hinds

“We've seen a lot of people self-destruct because of a small taste of success.”

People Self Taste Self Destruct Taste Of Success

Author:Shannon Hoon

“We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world.”

People World Trying States Government Realizing United United States Seeing Bills China Mediums Massive Organize Korea North Korea

Author:Sergey Brin

“We've seen a shift where people were often initially reluctant to call things terrorism until they knew for sure. And now they start out assuming it's terrorism and then work backwards and say it may or may not have been terrorism. And it does matter tremendously because of the resources involved. If it's a crime that's seen as a disturbed individual, then local police will handle it. If it's a crime that's seen as someone who might be linked to an international terrorist group, you get the vast federal U.S. national security bureaucracy as well as tremendous political attention.”

“We've seen an economy stifled by more taxes, more regulation, a war on coal and a failing health care reform come to be known as Obamacare and the American people know that we need to make a change.”

People Knows Needs War Care Known Economy Failing Taxes Reform Health Care Regulation Coal Making Changes Obamacare Health Care Reform

Author:Mike Pence

“We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer.”

Play Easy Difficult Car Masters Conversation Computer Beats Chess Desert Playing Chess

Author:Hod Lipson

“We've seen each other fight like heck, and seen each other absolutely humiliated...and we've ever held hands....but we still don't know each others names.”

Knows Stills Hands Fighting Names Drama Humiliated

Author:Taeyang

“We've seen hate groups rise across the country. But we've also seen an increase in the average person, who looks like your doctor, your lawyer, your mechanic, your dentists, starting to say the same types of rhetoric. Sometimes it's a little bit more polished, something the average person who has underlying racism can attach himself to. I'm less concerned about skinheads and Klansmen now than the average person who feels emboldened, and the militia and sovereign-citizen groups who are certainly tied to white supremacist organizations, training in paramilitary camps.”

Country Sometimes Hate Like You Racism Training Concerned Lawyer Rhetoric Mechanic Dentist

Author:Christian Picciolini

“We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.”

People Stories Ordinary Impact Presses Various Traditional Journalism Ignored Ordinary People Blogs Grassroots Being Ignored

Author:Jimmy Wales

“We've seen how militarized gear can sometimes give people a feeling like there's an occupying force, as opposed to a force that's part of the community that's protecting them and serving them.”

People Giving Sometimes Feelings Force Community Serving Gears

Author:Barack Obama

“We've seen in Europe after the recent terrorist attacks a certain retrogression in human rights. It depends on how threatened the Turks feel. For example, Turkey became much more tolerant towards Kurdish nationalists when the killing of Turkish soldiers stopped in southeastern Turkey and body bags stopped arriving. Now, since June there's been a revival of Kurdish attacks on Turkish troops - something like 150 people have been killed by terrorists supplied from and operating out of bases in northern Iraq. So Turks are feeling much less tolerant of Kurdish nationalism.”

People Feelings Killing Soldier Human Rights Terrorist Nationalism Revival Turkish

Author:Andrew Mango

“We've seen in terms of the reaction to some proposals in the Budget already how resistant that public opinion is to, first of all, a public comprehension of the new paradigm in which we have to operate; and secondly, to the rationale for the decisions that we're taking and the reason for those decisions to be implemented and followed through.”

Decision Behinds Opinion Public Opinion Paradigm Comprehension Rationale

Author:Brian Cowen

“We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.”

Lasts Literature Half Alive Century Extraordinary Incredibles

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“We've seen it in the last U.S. presidential campaign 2016: both sides were trading graphs and circulating data visualizations to make their point. So the political establishment is waking up to the power of a good graph as well.”

Political Wake Up Presidential Trading Visualization Presidential Campaign

Author:David Mccandless

“We've seen many Black men lose their life over the past couple of years. Not only just heard about it.”

Men Years Past Black Loses Heard Couple Over The Past

Author:Sterling K. Brown

“We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.”

Years Lasts Havens Decades Driving Recovery Reform Last Year Reformation Dimes Staggering

Author:Arne Duncan

“We've seen progressive rock all over the world, in South America, Europe, Asia, across the US and North America and Australia. There's huge audiences for this stuff. For me it's always been there and it's just a matter of time before the people have more of the means to spread the word.”

People World Mean Matter America Stuff Audience Rocks Huge Europe South Spread Australia Progressive Asia North America South America Matter Of Time

Author:John Petrucci

“We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good”

Film Be Good Best Film

Author:Keenen Ivory Wayans

“We've seen some good progress, some good forward momentum. We have about Republican senators who have now indicated that they'll meet with Judge Merric Garland.”

Progress Judging Republican Senators Momentum Judge Me Garlands Forward Momentum

Author:Denis McDonough

“We've seen some insane signs: 'Is that a loaf of bread in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?' Funny stuff along those lines. Very original. One just said, 'I will do unspeakable things.' I thought that was very interesting - and mildly terrifying!”

Said Funny Stuff Lines Interesting Originals Bread Insane Pockets Very Interesting Unspeakable Funny Stuff

Author:Josh Hutcherson

“We've seen that in the past that where you've had uncertainty, and even where the Fed is raising rates, Treasurys rise as everybody heads for safety.”

Past Safety Rate Uncertainty Feds

Author:Gary Shilling

“We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.”

People Want Humans Long Internet Teenager Islands Millionaire Housewife Long Island Moguls

Author:Rainn Wilson

“We've seen the bankruptcy of many newspapers. We've seen a further erosion of the line between news and entertainment. But I do believe that there is reason to hope that over time we will see the higher-quality journalism rise to the surface.”

Believe Reason Lines Quality Higher News Entertainment Surface Newspapers Journalism Bankruptcy Erosion

Author:Al Gore

“We've seen the reality of Saddam's regime: his thugs prepared to kill their own people, the parading of prisoners of war and now the release of those pictures of executed British soldiers.”

People War Reality Prepared Soldier British Release Prisoner Regimes Saddam Thug Prisoner Of War British Soldiers

Author:Tony Blair

“We've seen the Republican Party come apart at the seam with Donald Trump taking the remnants over the cliff. We've seen the basic foundation of the Republican Party move into the Democratic Party inside of Hillary's campaign.”

Moving Party Trump Republican Foundation Democratic Campaigns Republican Party Cliffs Democratic Party Remnants

Author:Jill Stein

“We've seen the transformation of America, when at the pinnacle of its Christianity was probably in the 1950s. Ever since then it has been declining, why? Because of the sexual revolution. Where did the sexual revolution come from? The sexual revolution came from the activists of the American gay movement.”

Has Beens America Christianity Movement Revolution Gay Transformation Activist Pinnacle Sexual Revolution

Author:Scott Lively

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