W Quotes
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“We preach democracy while supporting dictatorships.”
Source: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
“We preach free enterprise capitalism. We believe in it, we give our lives in war for it, but the closest most of us come to profiting from it are a few miserable shares of stock in a company that doesn't pay large enough dividends to keep a small mouse in cheese. The truth is, most of us are job serfs. At a time when invested capital returns 20 to 30 percent, we have no capital. We only have our wages and salaries, and a debt so high that something like 20c on every dollar we earn is spent to pay off what we owe.”
Source: Left at the post
“We preach FREEDOM, not silenced slavery. Stop being a hypocritical element. Do to others what you can accept yourself.”
“We preach sermons, write books on apologetics, conduct city-wide evangelistic campaigns. For those alienated from the church, that approach no longer has the same drawing power. And for the truly needy, words alone don't satisfy; "A hungry person has no ears," as one relief worker told me. A skeptical world judges the truth of what we say by the proof of how we live.”
“We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.”
“We preach to men as if they were conscious they were dying sinners, they are not; they are having a good time.”
“We preachers, people entrust us with their time week after week. I'm still stunned that people will let me talk to them for thirty minutes about anything I want to. It's a wonderful treasure that we are to steward.”
“We preceive that God is in all of those we give to.”
“We predict our own future by reliving the past within our daily lives.”
“We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility”
Source: Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary
“We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“We prefer freedom with poverty to wealth with tyranny.”
“We prefer humility in others - and if we prefer it in others - we can soon prefer it in ourselves.”
“We prefer knowing to thinking, because knowing has more immediate value.”
“We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston. We feel that we are highly blessed.”
“We prefer our medicine to have a bit more, well, medicine.”
Source: Monsters in a Mirror: Strange Tales from the Chapel Perilous
“We prefer our monsters materialized, not made.”
Source: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
“We prefer our tribes to the others. We believe in the superiority of our tribe, and we push back against those who threaten our group. Our tribes give us a sense of belonging, cooperation, purpose, comfort, and support. We nurture our tribes with myths and morals, facts and fictions, to bind ourselves to one another.”
Source: The Capitalist and the Activist: Corporate Social Activism and the New Business of Change
“We prefer our way into things such as regret, unhappiness, and anxiety.”
“We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“We prefer people who are trying to imitate us more than those who are trying to equal us. This is because imitation is a sign of esteem, but the desire to equal others is a sign of envy.”
“We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery.”
“We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.”
Source: Mother Africa mourns Kwame Nkrumah, the Emancipator
“We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty.”
“We prefer the not wanting and not having to the losing.”
Source: Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition and the Life of Faith
“We prefer the shadows where we feel safe over the light which exposes us and causes us to say 'woe is me!'”
“We prefer to be around others who bring out the best in us and make us feel good, don’t we? Customers want to do business with people who make them feel valued, appreciated, and happy.”
Source: The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact
“We prefer to find an explanation for why things are not perfect, and these rarely stand up to close scrutiny.”
Source: Scapegoat: A History of Blaming Other People
“We prefer to find mates who are roughly as attractive as we are, which means they are more likely to stay and not look for a better offer.”
“We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us”
Source: Lafcadio's Adventures: A Novel
“We prefer to leave our mistakes in dusty cupboards, when they should be center table, with a flower, coffee and sweet-rolls. Without our mistakes, we wouldn’t be ourselves, we’d be someone else we wouldn’t even like.”
“We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.”
“We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.”
Source: Any Number Can Play
“We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution
“We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.”
“We preferred our own way of living. We were no expense to the government. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone.”
“We prefigure our futures by imagining our pasts. To go back and forth. Across the waters. The past, the present, the elusive future. A nation. Everything constantly shifted by the present. The taut elastic of time.”
Source: TransAtlantic
“We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.”
Source: Outliers: The Story of Success
“We preoccupy ourselves with what we had — or what we want to have — at the expense of what we have.”
“We prepare for success by acquiring virtues.”
“We prepare our students for jobs and careers, but we don't teach them to think as individuals about what kind of world they would create.”
Source: Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
“We prepare the ground for our prayer when we shed something which is not Christ's, which is unworthy of him, and only the prayer of one who can, like St. Paul say, 'I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me,' is real Christian prayer.”
“We prepare to die by pushing ourselves to love less narrowly. In that sense, readying ourselves for death is really an ever-widening entry into life.”
“We prepared properly and performed well, and it just didn’t go right,” then there’s nothing to regret. You just have to be determined to get ’em the next time.”
Source: How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life
“We prepared to go ashore to publish for the first time in New Zealand the glad tidings of the gospel.”
“We present a series of hypotheses and speculations, leading inescapably to the conclusion that SU(5) is the gauge group of the world — that all elementary particle forces (strong, weak, and electromagnetic) are different manifestations of the same fundamental interaction involving a single coupling strength, the fine-structure constant. Our hypotheses may be wrong and our speculations idle, but the uniqueness and simplicity of our scheme are reasons enough that it be taken seriously.”
“We presently have the technology ... fuel cells, solar cells, hydrogen ... the opportunities are amazing for clean energy.”
“We preserve our humanity when we: – Say "I don’t know" without shame. – Choose silence when noise is cheap. – Care even when it's inconvenient. – Stay present when it would be easier to scroll away.”
Source: In the Quiet - On Logic, Spirit, and the Discipline of Living Without Certainty: Agnosticism, Deism, Stoicism and the Spiritual Discipline
“we presume to draw a distinction between what we call good and what we call evil. We find our images of what we call evil in things outside ourselves, in creatures that know nothing of such matters, so that we feel revolted by them, and, by contrast, good about ourselves.”
Source: Last Chance To See
“We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.”