W Quotes
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“We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others—our parents, for instance—and they disappear from our lives, the conversation with them continues within us as long as we live.”
Source: Philosophical Arguments
“We define ourselves by the best that is in us, not the worst that has been done to us.”
“We define ourselves in different ways, according to culture, family, peer group, and world-view. By what we enjoy doing, and what we don’t enjoy doing. By what we’ve experienced, and what we would like to experience. It all comes together to form the basis of ‘us’. Losing your compass, your passion, meaning, or purpose—could lead towards pain or towards discovery.”
Source: Fragments: Essays and Philosophies
“We define ourselves in terms of self-interest, but we also interact, communicate, and view each other from a self-interest framework so complete that we define intelligence itself in terms of successful self-interest. In a significant way, even our religions are all based on the promise of reward or punishment. Interacting with entities that don't have this in the same way, we have to change how we view intelligence to new standards.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.”
“We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one's total orientation to life. Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One's religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.”
Source: Man's Search for Himself
“We define thermodynamics ... as the investigation of the dynamical and thermal properties of bodies, deduced entirely from the first and second law of thermodynamics, without speculation as to the molecular constitution.”
“We define what we deserve, others also define what we deserve, apparently there is a huge difference and we spend our life constructing the same.”
Source: Just the Way I Feel
“We definitely aren't very good at staying in one place. There's not a domesticated bone in my body.”
“We definitely classify things in order to get closer to what we believe in - so it serves a purpose to really think about one style of music, and to understand the shades of delineation between similar artists. But yeah, it's really nice to listen to something the way most people listen to music! Just to enjoy it, without having to put it in context.”
“We definitely didn't want it to be anything like our first or second records. We wanted to experiment more than we ever had and take any new idea and run with it as far as we could.”
“We definitely have a hardcore following.”
“We definitely have a lot of talent in India for football. It is great to see football's growing popularity and I really hope a larger number of corporate companies invest in the game so that one day we have a great team to boast about.”
“We definitely have our finger on the pulse. You have to keep up. We decide what to watch by what's funny.”
“We definitely need to educate the next generation about the toxicity of jobs and which ones to avoid.”
“We definitely need to get the excitement back.”
“We definitely needed to spend a good solid year just finding ourselves before anyone would even notice us. We had our fan-base growing around here in Los Angeles, but I wouldn't even have wanted anyone to come out to see us that was from a record label or something like that at that time, because we really needed to feel ourselves out as a live band.”
“We definitely set out to make a great 'radio' record. We set out to write great hooky choruses-but with verses that said something.”
“We definitely sometimes get stuff that's different that we were expecting. I mean, that's part of the joy and the terror of interviewing real, live people. Sometimes they come along the journey with you, and most of the time they don't.”
“We definitely tend to gravitate toward writing more on the darker side of life, but also incorporate the light at the end of the tunnel; you can see a positive in it.”
“We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him.”
Source: The Idiot
“We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.”
“We deliberate not about ends, but about means.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“We deliberately chose a small theatre so that the show was still intimate and the audience would become a part of the show.”
“We deliberately forget because forgetting is a blessing. On both an emotional level and a spiritual level, forgetting is a natural part of the human experience and a natural function of the human brain. It is a feature, not a bug, one that saves us from being owned by our memories. Can a world that never forgets be a world that truly forgives?”
Source: The Next Story: Life and Faith after the Digital Explosion
“We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.”
“We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.”
Source: Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
“We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them.”
“We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.”
Source: Joyful Christian
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“We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years of tuning, of learning and practice it takes to be skilled at even the most fundamental of human activities: eating, walking, talking, reading, and writing. It is tempting to want instant gratification - immediate expert performance and experiential pleasure - but the truth is that this primarily occurs only after considerable amounts of accretion and tuning.”
“We delude ourselves if we think that decency is not rewarded in other people simply because we refuse to practice it ourselves.”
Source: Bellevere House
“We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.”
“We demand a non-violent world where human security is the basis of our common global security. People have the right to live in a world where the basic needs of all peoples are addressed. No more military attacks. No more war.”
“We demand an unconditional peace, we demand a cease-fire, a withdrawal of all foreign troops, and closing of the border.... We will find a compromise within the country.”
“We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.”
Source: Calvin Coolidge says: dispatches written by former-president Coolidge and syndicated to newspapers in 1930-1931 : gathered for issuance in book form on the one-hundredth anniversary of Mr. Coolidge's birth, 4 July 1972
“We demand from others only what we fail to give ourselves”
“We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.”
Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences
“We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.”
“We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.”
“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”
Source: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.”
Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena
“We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait (as we have conceived it), in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.”
Source: Night and Silence, Who is Here?
“We demand that sex speak the truth and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth of that truth about ourselves wich we think we possess in our immediate consciousness.”
“We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. "Why do this," you may ask? Because it'll be fun.”
“We demand the economic empowerment of the masses through an enormous redistribution of wealth from the privileged to the people. We demand a system of total social mobility i.e. we demand the complete abolition of the force obstructing social mobility: privilege. We demand that those people living on the margins, the fringes of society, be restored to the mainstream and have their dignity returned to them. Nobody people versus Somebody people. It’s time for the nobodies to win.”
Source: The Illuminati Phalanx
“We demand to be coaxed and comforted, to be encouraged and gratified, so we choose a teacher who will give us what we crave for. We do not search out reality, but go after gratification and sensation.”
Source: Commentaries on Living 2
“We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.”
“We Democrats believe in an America where no matter who you are or where you come from, you should have an equal shot at success.”