W Quotes
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“We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.”
Source: Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta
“We anathematize those who presume to teach or explain any other creed.”
“We anchored just off the mouth of the Ozama River in about 30 feet of water and used the running boat to land liberty parties. Since Trujillo was extremely anti-communist, everything else he did was forgiven by the United States. It was our policy at the time to maintain a friendship with Latin American dictators, as long as they are anti-communistic. Regardless of our political friendship with the Dominican Republic, we were warned not to get into trouble since it could create a serious international problem. From our vantage point at the anchorage, we could see the newly acquired Presidential yacht Angelita alongside the wharf paralleling the Ozama River. The vessel was built in Kiel, Germany, in 1931 as the Hussar II and at the time was the largest private yacht afloat. The Angelita had a strange look since she was designed to be a four-masted sail ship, but lacked masts, when she was previously converted to a weather ship for the U.S. Coast Guard and later the U.S. Navy. The name had already been changed from USS Sea Cloud to Trujillo’s daughter’s name when I saw her, but it would still take a few more years before her conversion would be complete although she should have remained a sail ship….
The good news is that after the ship stayed in port for eight years, Hartmut Paschburg and a group of Hamburg associates purchased her. Changing her name back to the Sea Cloud, she underwent extensive repairs and revisions at the Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, the same Hamburg shipyard where she was originally built. This time she became a luxury sailing cruising ship outfitted to accommodate sixty-four passengers and a crew of sixty. The Sea Cloud set sail on her first cruise in 1979 and has been described by the Berlitz Complete Guide to Cruising & Cruise Ships as "the most romantic sailing ship afloat! In 2011, the Sea Cloud underwent additional renovations at the MWB-Werft in Bremerhaven. She is still in operation….”
“We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.”
Source: The William James Reader
“We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union.”
“We and the beasts are kin.”
Source: Wild Animals I Have Known
“We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.”
Source: Peace Like a River
“We and we alone have the power to change our lives, and we can choose to do so at any moment.”
Source: The Right Questions: Ten Essential Questions To Guide You To An Extraordinary Life
“We and you ought not to pull on the ends of a rope which you have tied the knots of war. Because the more the two of us pull, the tighter the knot will be tied. And then it will be necessary to cut that knot, and what that would mean is not for me to explain to you. I have participated in two wars and know that war ends when it has rolled through cities and villages, everywhere sowing death and destruction. For such is the logic of war. If people do not display wisdom, they will clash like blind moles and then mutual annihilation will commence.”
“We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes.”
“We Anhedonians have adapted to long periods between good news. Our national animal is the hope camel. We have no national bird. All the birds are dead.”
Source: The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
“We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.”
Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
“We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?”
“We annihilate convention in order to experience the truth of otherness.”
Source: How to Break Article Noun
“We announce the birth of a conceptual country, NEWTOPIA. Citizenship of the country can be obtained by declaration of your awareness of NEWTOPIA. NEWTOPIA has no land, no boundaries, no passports, only people. NEWTOPIA has no laws other than cosmic. All people of NEWTOPIA are ambassadors of the country. As two ambassadors of NEWTOPIA, we ask for diplomatic immunity and recognition in the United Nations of our country and our people.”
“We announced that there'd be no more starvation in India. And you responded, 'Impossible. You'll never succeed!' Instead we succeeded; today in India no one dies of hunger any more; food production far exceeds consumption.”
“We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.”
Source: Lectures on Preaching: Delivered Before the Divinity School of Yale College in January and February, 1877
“We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.”
“We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.”
“We apologize for the fact that the cartoons undeniably have offended many Muslims.”
“We appeal, not to those who reject today in the name of a return to yesterday, not to those who are hopelessly deafened by today; we appeal to those who see the distant tomorrow -- and judge today in the name of tomorrow.”
“We appear to be in an up swing trend of artificial intelligence creating artificial experts.”
“We appear to be one person, but there are two lives within each of us who have received the Spirit of God. The soul life of Fallen Adam and the spiritual life of Jesus Christ are involved in the greatest power struggle the world has ever known, concerning who will rule over us.”
Source: The Truth About Witchcraft
“We appear to be overplaying this global warming issue as global warming is nothing new. It has happened in the past, not once but several times, giving rise to glacial-interglacial cycles.”
“We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.”
“We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers.”
“We applaud in silent awe
at how something as simple
as the alignment of
water
trees
light
creates a masterpiece
every single day,
just by existing.”
Source: Cold Spring Hallelujah
“We applaud patience, but prefer it to be a virtue that others possess.”
Source: After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters
“We applaud the people who are film stars, who get elected to an office, who are very athletic, the small group who play with power in a very limited way. But we're completely oblivious to what can be done to the infinite realities that exist in front of us. We deny them.”
“We applied a very simple principle: Recognize the facts. Abortion is old as the world. Gay marriage, please - it's older than the world. We had Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, please. To say it's modern, come on, it's older than we are. It's an objective reality that it exists. For us, not legalizing it would be to torture people needlessly.”
“We applied our muzzy intellects to a theory of light. That all are born radiating light but that this light diminished slowly (if one was lucky) or abruptly (if one was not). The most charismatic people - the poets, the mystics, the explorers - were that way because they had somehow managed to keep a bit of this light that was meant to have dimmed. But the shocking thing, the unbearable thing it seemed, was that the natural order was for this light to vanish. It hung on sometimes through the twenties, a glint here or there in the thirties, and then almost always the eyes went dark.”
Source: Dept. of Speculation
“We apply fight-or-flight reflexes not only to predators, but to data itself.”
“We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts.”
“We apply our effort to be mindful, to be aware in this very moment, right here and now, and we bring a very wholehearted effort to it. This brings concentration. It is this power of concentration that we use to cut through the world of surface appearances to get to a much deeper reality.”
“We apply the catechism by opening Italy's doors to women and children who come here legally on aeroplanes, but no more men on rubber dinghies. We will help them grow up and work in their own countries. Let's spend in Africa the money that needs to be spent.”
“We apply the language that is comforting and comfortable and familiar in order to grasp that which confuses and scares us. That is the first step toward cliché and stereotype, as they're comforting devices. They reduce the confusing world to the already familiar. We're always smoothing out the bumps of actual living to turn it into narratable life.”
“We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.”
“We appreciate most that which we have lived without.”
Source: The Dawning of Power
“We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us.”
Source: The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection
“We appreciate the efforts of the United States, of the president, of the secretary of state, and we are ready to find any form of talks, but we have to overcome the differences between Syria and Israel to reach peace.”
“We appreciate yesterday, but we're looking for a better tomorrow.”
“We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to measure our descent.”
Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition
“We approach closer and closer to socialism.”
“We approach life not just to be able to think about it and talk about it and discover its truths, but also to enjoy it. And so a healthy life really isn't about abstinence or asceticism, it's about enjoying your time on this earth.”
“We approach markets backwards. The first thing we ask is not what can we make, but how much can we lose. We play a defensive game.”
“We approach nonfiction at a much different level than we approach fiction or poetry or drama: that there's almost no room for metaphor. We expect the "I" in any nonfiction text to be an autobiographical "I" when there is a history in the essay of the "I" being a persona.”
“We approach our shows the same way where we just have a map and we present them to the network so that they realize that, all things being equal, we can definitely head in that direction. Sometimes we do and sometimes we find better ways along the way.”
“We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, "What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?"”
“We approach Scripture with minds already formed by the mass of accepted opinions and viewpoints with which we have come into contact, in both the Church and the world....It is easy to be unaware that it has happened; it is hard even to begin to realize how profoundly tradition in this sense has moulded us.”
“We approach the divine by enlarging our souls and lighting up our brains.”
Source: Skinny Legs and All