W Quotes
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“We are now enjoying the liberation that comes with not having to be organization men and women, and that's fabulous. But there are new social consequences here of which we need to be aware, and the sale of the self and what that entails for the rest of our lives is quite sobering.”
“We are now exposed to ten times the amount of artificial light that people were exposed to just fifty years ago.”
Source: Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
“We are now face to face with the truly Ultimate Ambiguity which is the human spirit. This is the most fascinating ambiguity of all: that as each of us grows up, the mark of our maturity is that we accept our mortality; and yet we persist in our search for immortality. We may believe it's all transient, even that it's all over; yet we believe a future. We believe. We emerge from a cinema after three hours of the most abject degeneracy in a film such as ''La Dolce Vita,'' and we emerge on wings, from the sheer creativity of it; we can fly on, to a future. And the same is true after witnessing the hopelessness of ''Godot'' in the theater, or after the aggressive violence of ''The Rite of Spring'' in the concert hall. Or even after listening to the bittersweet young cynicism of an album called ''Revolver,'' we have wings to fly on.”
Source: The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard
“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action.”
“We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.”
“We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. . . . Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, 'Too late.' ... Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world.”
“We are now facing a difficult situation in Peru, where there are attempts to cut back the territorial rights of the indigenous peoples, including moves to divide, fragment and privatise our communal organisations. Now more than ever, it is a matter of urgency for us to consolidate our own indigenous alternatives for development.”
“We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.”
Source: Jeffersonian principles and Hamiltonian principles: extracts from the writings of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton
“We are now going through a period of demolition. In morals, in social life, in politics, in medicine, and in religion there is a universal upturning of foundations. But the day of reconstruction seems to be looming, and now the grand question is: Are there any sure and universal principles that will evolve a harmonious system in which we shall all agree?”
Source: Common Sense Applied to Religion: Or, The Bible and the People
“We are now going to the Lamanites, to whom we intend to be messengers of instruction... We will show them that in consequence of their transgressions a curse has been inflicted upon them - in the darkness of their skins. We will have intermarriages with them, they marrying our young women, and we taking their young squaws to wife. By these means it is the will of the Lord that the curse of their color shall be removed and they restored to their pristine beauty.”
“We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.”
“We are now in 126 countries. We have 561 houses - tabernacles we call them - and over 4600 nuns. It's simply to serve the poorest of the poor. We are wanted and we have championed those who have nothing, the deprived children of God.”
“We are now in a position to understand the anti-Semite. He is a man who is afraid. Not of the Jews, to be sure, but of himself, of his own consciousness, of his liberty, of his instincts, of his responsibilities, of solitariness, of change, of society, and of the world of everything except the Jews.”
“We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.”
“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”
Source: My First Summer in the Sierra
“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun,-a part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.‎”
Source: John Muir: Nature Writings
“We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.”
Source: Curiosities of literature
“We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.”
“We are now left to choose between danger and regret, neither of which can restore the lives we have lost.”
Source: The Lost Sisterhood
“We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.”
“We are now living in a jungle where the strong eats the weak,we are not better than the Arabs to despise them.”
“We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.”
Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“We are now moving towards complete collectivism or socialism, a system under which everybody is enslaved to everybody.”
“We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.”
“We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.”
“We are now past the era of speculation and blame. We need to create the era of positive direct action.”
Source: What's Going On? How Can We Help?: The consequences of capitalism and actionable steps towards a healthy and sustainable future
“We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.”
“We are now returning to the 18th century empirical approach with the new interest in the evolutionary basis of ethics, with 'experimental' moral philosophy and moral psychology. As a result, we understand better why moral formulas are experienced as ineluctable commands, even if there is no commander and even if the notion of an inescapable obligation is just superstition. So moral philosophy has made huge progress.”
“We are now running out of time, and the question now is not what is happening to the climate, but how bad will it be before the world starts doing enough?”
“We are now running out of time.”
“We are now so far advanced in our denial of evil that we want to rationalise it away.”
“We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.”
Source: Addresses Upon the American Road
“We are now spending half a trillion dollars on foreign oil, importing 62 percent of the oil we use, and we haven't had the leadership in D.C. to do anything about it. We've got to move to other sources of energy. But we've gotten way behind, and will continue to pay the fiddler. It's not a good future.”
“We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide circles of the American society or wide circles of the Christian community realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel versus the anti-Gospel.”
“We are now the proud owners of a white boy. Now we have to shop in the caucasian isle and get sunscreen, mayonaise and mild salsa because the other ones really hawt!”
“We are now to rank among the nations of the world; but whether our Independence shall prove a blessing or a curse must depend upon our own wisdom or folly, virtue or wickedness.... Justice and virtue are the vital principles of republican government.”
“We are now trusting to those who are against us in position and principle, to fashion to their own form the minds and affections of our youth... This canker is eating on the vitals of our existence, and if not arrested at once, will be beyond remedy.”
Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson
“We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787
“We are now visiting and playing with several planets as a child plays with his toys.”
“We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of heredity, development and disease. This concentration is made possible by the common function of nucleic acids as the molecular midwife of all reproductive particles. Indeed it is the nucleic acids which, in spite of their chemical obscurity, are giving to biology a unity which has so far been lacking, a chemical unity.”
“We are now, measurably, reducing the availability of these life-supporting goods which we can think of (though only on the conditions of good health and good care) as self-renewing or "sustainable." We are also destroying rapidly the supplies of the fossil fuels, which are limited and not renewable, and on which we have become totally dependent.”
Source: The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays
“We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.”
“We are nowhere forbidden to laugh.”
“We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man.”
Source: A Maimonides Reader
“We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to 'like' one another. Love governs the will: 'liking' is a matter of sense and sensibility. Nevertheless, if we really love others it will not be too hard to like them also.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.”
Source: A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French
“We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.”
“We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.”
“We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.”