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We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

– Benjamin Lee WhorfRate it:

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

– Jose Ortega y GassetRate it:

We do not always have explanations to questions of human nature. Are those who revel in their own anguish and grief seeking attention, or has it become an ingrained slice of their personality? I think, both.

– RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo)Rate it:

We do not attract what we want, But what we are.

– James AllenRate it:

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

– Harriet MartineauRate it:

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

– Malcolm XRate it:

We do not counterfeit his own signature, but his nature. (On ne contrefait sa propre - Signature, mais sa nature.)

– Charles de LEUSSERate it:

We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.

– Fidel Castro, Speech given in January 1963, calling for communist revolution in Latin AmericaRate it:

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

– CiceroRate it:

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

– Antonin ArtaudRate it:

We do not exist for ourselves...

– Thomas MertonRate it:

We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.

– John ClaypoolRate it:

We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies -- all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.

– Angela CarterRate it:

We do not go to school to be a success, we go to school to learn to hopefully be a success one day and if not then our plan in life lies elswhere and that is good ......

– Bev KeevillRate it:

We do not hate those we fight; we do not love those we defend.

– Unknown, Tuskegee Airman motto during World War IIRate it:

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

– Johann von GoetheRate it:

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

– Johann Wolfgang von GoetheRate it:

We do not hide the truth in eternity. (On ne cache pas le vrai - Dans l'éternité.)

– Charles de LEUSSERate it:

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. (Actually appearing as "a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children" in _The Unforeseen Wilderness: An Essay on Kentucky’s Red River Gorge_, published 1971)

– Wendell BerryRate it:

We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children.

– American Indian ProverbRate it:

We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

– Haida Indian sayingRate it:

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

– William ShakespeareRate it:

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

– Georges DuhamelRate it:

We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.

– Robert HutchinsRate it:

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