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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

– SocratesRate it:

We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.

– George Dennison PrenticeRate it:

We are in the 21st century; what are the kings or the queens doing in this century? They must remain in the past!

– Mehmet Murat ildanRate it:

We are in the midst of a global battery arms race where, at present, the US is a bystander

– Simon MooresRate it:

We are in the transportation business. We transport audiences from one place to another.

– Jerry BruckheimerRate it:

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

– Samuel JohnsonRate it:

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

– Adelle DavisRate it:

We are jealous our close neighbors, but not the sun and its care. (Nous jalousons nos proches voisins, - Mais pas le soleil et ses soins.) [Fables1, The Ant / La Fourmi]

– Charles de LEUSSERate it:

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

– Stephen HawkingRate it:

We are just tenants on this world. We have just been given a new lease, and a warning from the landlord.

– Arthur C. Clarke, 2010Rate it:

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

– H. G.Wells, The Time MachineRate it:

We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.

– Saint Thomas AquinasRate it:

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a great distance, not by virtue of any sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.

– Bernard of Chartres, 12th CenturyRate it:

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

– Anais NinRate it:

We are like vessels tossed on the bosom of the deep; our passions are the winds that sweep us impetuously forward; each pleasure is a rock; the whole life is a wide ocean. Reason is the pilot to guide us, but often allows itself to be led astray by the storms of pride.

– MetastasioRate it:

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.

– Margaret MeadRate it:

We are living for the happiness, going toward the happiness, and like to vanish in the happiness.

– Debasish Mridha, M.D.Rate it:

We are living in a 'one morning' world; we get up one morning and many things have changed! Tomorrow morning, there will be another 'one morning!'

– Mehmet Murat ildanRate it:

We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons...

– Alfred E. NewmanRate it:

We are living in the era where kings and queens are few.

– Sipho P NkosiRate it:

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

– Fred AllenRate it:

We are living in the World of Snails! Man is extremely slow! Whoever has a limited life, he has no right to be slow! Things must be done quickly! Slowness belongs to the immortals!

– Mehmet Murat ildanRate it:

We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.

– Aldous HuxleyRate it:

We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present.

– Lawrence K. FrankRate it:

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