W Quotes
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“We envy people whose traits compete with our desirability as a mate.”
Source: Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
“We envy the angels because they are placed in the upper world and the fallen angels became jealous of us because we were placed in the lower world.”
“We envy toddlers the most for pretty much always living fully in the present moment, and for having the courage to laugh for absolutely no reason.”
“We erase ourselves; we go away. But we don't really go away, and we don't really erase ourselves, since we were never there to begin with. We weren't there to begin with in that what we are, or conceive of ourselves as, is a perception.”
“We error in our ways for lack of knowledge of the Truth of God.”
“We escalate together through these sunsets to midnights where we ponder in the portions of the days that remain for us to analyze.”
Source: Poetic Cognition
“We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world economy found its way back on track fairly quickly.”
“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.”
“We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.”
“We essentially had to build a docking mechanism between the two capsules. We didn't have to share a lot of data, and we did that at the height of the Cold War, which was pretty symbolic." –Bill Gerstenmaier”
Source: The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles
“We essentially spent our college years together [with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg], so those were the kind of lasting friendships and the bond you form during those years, and those friendships last a really long time.”
“We establish a connection with the unknown through the act of giving something and, paradoxically, the act of destroying something. That is what is behind sacrifice. What you offer and what you destroy, it is that surplus which is life itself.”
“We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“We established a regime that left creativity unregulated. Now it was unregulated because copyright law only covered "printing." Copyright law did not control derivative work. And copyright law granted this protection for the limited time of 14 years.”
“We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, (as in electing their functionaries executive and legislative, and deciding by a jury of themselves, in all judiciary cases in which any fact is involved,) or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.”
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“We established most of our self-beliefs during our childhood, but they were based on our limited understanding of the world around us. They are either flawed or have become outdated. We can’t take these beliefs at face value anymore.”
Source: The Disbelief Habit: How to Use Doubt to Make Peace with Your Inner Critic
“We esteem in the world those who do not merit our esteem, and neglect persons of true worth; but the world is like the ocean--the pearl is in its depths, the seaweed swims.”
“We estimate that by 2010 China will have added another 250 million subscribers, strengthening its position as the single largest mobile market in the world.”
“We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.”
“We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year.”
“We estimate that there are perhaps 20,000 prehistoric hunter-gatherers frozen up in those glaciers. Now, if they simply thaw and wander around, it's not a problem, but if they find a leader - a Captain Caveman, if you will - we'll be facing an even more serious problem.”
“We estimate, and this isn't an estimation, that Greta Waitz is 80 seconds behind”
“We Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands, of course in friendship with the United States, in friendship with Great Britain, with other neighbors wherever possible, also with Russia. But we must know that we need to fight for our future ourselves, as Europeans, for our destiny.”
“We Europeans. We need to show the necessary strength together.”
“We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.”
“We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.”
“We even, at the worst, reach the state for which Buddhism, in the East presents most ably the case: as in the West, does James Thomson (B.V.) in
The City of Dreadful Night
; we come to wish for—or, more truly to think that we wish for "blest Nirvana's sinless stainless Peace" (or some such twaddle—thank God I can't recall Arnold's mawkish and unmanly phrase!) and B.V.'s "Dateless oblivion and divine repose."
I insist on the "think that you wish," because, if the real You did really wish the real That, you could never have come to exist at all! ("But I don't exist."—"I know—let's get on!")
Note, please, how sophistically unconvincing are the Buddhist theories of how we ever got into this mess. First cause: Ignorance. Way out, then, knowledge. O.K., that implies a knower, a thing known—and so on and so forth, through all the Three Waste Paper Baskets of the Law; analysed, it turns out to be nonsense all dolled up to look like thinking. And there is no genuine explanation of the origin of the Will to be.
How different, how simple, how self-evident, is the doctrine of
The Book of the Law
!”
Source: Magick Without Tears
“We even commissioned a smaller pair of these statues for the baggage claim area in the regular lobby.
Gives all those Normal conspiracy nuts something to talk about besides the Blue Mustang. They think our statues are the work of Masons or reptilian beings. Ha.”
Source: Vampire Syndrome
“We even consider going into the church, and then change our minds because they've altered their sign to say:
DON'T LET WORRIES KILL YOU.
LET THE CHURCH HELP.
Frankly, that's a little too ambiguous for my liking.”
Source: Picture Perfect
“We even do not know what we have.”
“We even made it to the holy mecca of Brooklyn food fanaticism: Smorgasburg, a collection of food vendors that battle it out for the most outrageously delicious, ridiculously inventive food. We duly ate our heads off, sampling panko-crusted chicken sandwiches topped with pickled cucumbers and daikon, brown butter cookies doused in flies of sea salt, and the coup d'état- gigantic, billowy doughnuts from a Bed-Stuy bakery called Dough, one sweetly flavored with hibiscus, the other a savory, roasted café au last varietal.”
Source: Brooklyn in Love: A Delicious Memoir of Food, Family, and Finding Yourself
“We even make ourselves up, fusing what we are with what we wish into what we must become. I'm not sure why it must be so, but it is.”
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things
“We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.”
Source: Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
“We even switched to a newly-formed church across the town that gave one hundred and twenty trading stamps each time we attended. (We now worship a brown and white chicken with a sunburst on its chest.)”
Source: At Wit's End
“We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good bed, and you must make it and you must make it well. Or: Today is the day of the meatloaf. The meatloaf is swell. It is swell but when it is gone the not-having meatloaf will be tragic and the meatloaf man will not come anymore.”
Source: Old School
“We eventually learn that emotional closure is our own action. We can be responsible for it. In any moment, we can choose to open or to close.”
“We eventually realize that our entire lives are nothing more than a long journey, and the happy ones are those who choose paths that are in alignment with their values and goals.”
Source: Mastering Productivity: The 5 Ingredients of the Optimal Productivity System
“We ever long for visions of beauty,
We ever dream of unknown worlds.”
“We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
“We evolve at the rate of the tribe we are plugged into.”
“We evolve to have better dynamics with others. Not to be liked by them.”
“We evolve within its mind, it segregated us, feeding our souls to the great illusionary pigeon of matter.”
Source: Void Around Sunlight
“We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling.”
“We evolved haphazardly within a random universe; no purpose underpins us, no God watches over us, and no assured glorious future awaits us. We are saddled with a dualistic consciousness that weighs us down and plays tricks on us. We have built and seem unable to dismantle a dehumanizing and destructive civilization and mindset that perpetuates deceit and greed. We can make ourselves as comfortable as possible, as doctors tell their terminally ill patients, but we are sadly incurable.”
Source: Keeping Ourselves in the Dark
“We evolved to be physically active as we age, and in turn being active helps us age well. Further, the longer we stay active, the greater the benefit, and it is almost never too late to benefit from getting fit.”
Source: Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
“We evolved to be problem-solvers, to create, to be choosers of our own future!”
“We evolved to move and to learn with all our five senses!”
“We evolved without social welfare and we are equipped to solve our problems without it.”
“We evolved. We have only to look at the pouting face of a young chimpanzee to laugh at its reflections of ourselves. We know that more then 98 percent of our genes are shared with the chimpanzee, but we feel the kinship directly when the furry baby puts up its arms to be held.”
Source: Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution
“We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.”