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Related We have a right to life, not on it. DANIEL MELGAçO We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny! ABHISHEK KUMAR We want to make sure we are doing this the right way, as it has been done for many, many years in th... DAN HOLLAR Right now, we need to capture as much history as we can for World War II and for other wars, too. We... BILL VILLANO Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw ... JOHN LEWIS What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remai... ALBERT PIKE Right now we have a very recent goal of beating Canada and leaving this World Cup with our heads hel... ABBY WAMBACH That was three and a half years ago. We started with 20 employees. Now we have 750 and are hoping fo... JUDY LOWY Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let
us to the end dare to do our duty a... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to
do our duty as... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Many of us have gotten so used to playing to the expectations of society, of our families, SCOTT STABILE Our newest member is Johnny Colt, who was bass player with The Black Crowes. Colt fits right in with... JOHNNY VAN ZANT We know what we did was wrong and we cost our team a game (Friday) night. We would have loved to com... JOSH CIOCCO The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN Our starters didn't play a lot of minutes, and it was good to see us score as many points as we did ... BILLY DONOVAN Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as... ABRAHAM LINCOLN We're all on the same page, as far as doing what's right and waiting for the right time. We had some... DANIEL SPROUL As far as this year, our goals are through the sky right now, ... Some of the goals we have right no... 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Now we felt it was the right time... JAMIE ULMER Our record isn't too big of a deal right now. We know what we have to do, and as a team we know we c... DAVID SCHULTZ Our human experience, like the World War II Ultra code-breaking machine, catches the heavy traffic o... EUGENE KENNEDY We have to make sure that our set moves come off right and we're not dropping passes. We need to con... KYLE MCBRIDE Our goal was to hang around where we are right now until we got everybody back. I think our team and... DONNIE WALSH Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, a... JOSEPH BUTLER We understand very clearly that it's a challenging point in time and place right now. We have lost o... ANGELE DAVIS We understand very clearly that it's a challenging point in time and place right now. We have lost o... ANGELE DAVIS Education is a huge part of what we're doing right now. We're still doing what we can with our resou... 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DUANE ZAUNER We moved the ball well all preseason, but we've shot ourselves in the foot too. We're not playing ou... MIKE TICE We have allowed ourselves as much flexibility as we can. We believe it's in our shareholders' intere... MARK MAYS The day for people to just give us things is over. We have to stand up for ourselves. We have to hel... CYNTHIA WILLIAMS No matter how many scars we carry from what we have gone through and suffered in the past, our intri... JON KABAT-ZINN If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our ... CINDY SHEEHAN In many ways, our program was designed with 20 years of understanding where legacy frequent-flier pr... BARRY BIFFLE Flowers magnetize us with their beauty and reflect back to us our own essence. Their qualities magni... KATIE HESS It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now. YITZHAK RABIN We have raised a substantial amount ourselves and of course these races are expensive. We are going ... JOEL BAKER For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we b... JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL The guys know what's at stake if we win, we're in, and if we lose, we're done. One of our goals was ... DAN STAUBER When we're not shooting the ball as well as we have, and we're not getting the looks like we have in... LYNDSEY MEDDERS We came down here with a purpose. Right now, we have placed ourselves in a position to win this thin... AL SKINNER I don't think we have a right to enjoy our neuroses; in fact, I believe that we have a duty not ... COLM TOIBIN No, we haven't done enough research, but I'm an engineer, and we will never have enough research in ... JACK SCOTT We feel fortunate we've put ourselves in there, but the toughest stretch of the season is coming up ... HOYT WOODLE Right now we have the Louisiana State Police crime lab on site as well as the parish coroner's offic... STAN CARPENTER We have a rare and perhaps small window of opportunity to set partisan differences aside, and attemp... GORDON SMITH We all have to stand by our life's work as the true test of what we have done for the world. MATTHEW LESKO Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name... WALTER CRONKITE We are tending much more towards making sure that we have pharmaceutical plants that are located on ... DR. ANTHONY FAUCI With this team, what you see is what you get. We?re playing with a lot of confidence right now, prob... LENNY SMITH In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id... GARY F EVANS... People do not want what we have in our pockets half as much as they want what is in our hearts. If w... GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS As a football team, we're not looking for any handouts. We'll band together as a team. We want to go... AARON BROOKS We are going through our council to draw up a plan. As of right now, the position of our university ... BILL BOWEN We have a good nucleus of hitters back, and if we get some support from the younger kids, we'll be r... JANET LUGGE The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right ... ANGELINA GRIMKE It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn... ED BALLS Most of us are not raised to actively encounter our destiny. We may not know that we have one. As ch... JULIA CAMERON But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious pro... T.H. WHITE They just needed to do a better job of what we wanted them to do. Right now, we're inconsistent in o... DOUG MITCHELL As we are standing on a dazzling cliff, overwhelmed by a blizzard of unanswered questions, the alarm... ERIK PEVERNAGIE We must say "no" to what, in our heart, we don't want. We must say "no" to doing things out of oblig... SUZETTE R. HINTON We didn't do a whole lot right tonight. We put ourselves in a hole early in the game, but we still h... BRET WARNACK We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own... BILL MOYERS We understand very clearly that it's a challenging point in time and place right now. We have lost o... ANGELE DAVIS We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but ... DAVY CROCKETT We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none t... TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none t... T.S. ELIOT People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jo... HOWARD DEAN In the future, we must have our right (to independence) by making other nations in the area accept u... ADNAN MUFTI As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we kn... TONY JUDT “Life is a forever learning lesson. It’s all about how we handle situations every day and not le... BILL SCHUFFENHAUER Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, ... OLIVE SCHREINER For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the ... JOHN GRIERSON Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to
do our duty as... ROY DISNEY With these concrete, sustained projects we want to contribute to the reconstruction process. As well... EKKEHARD SCHULZ As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think ab... HENRI J.M. NOUWEN I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after ... CLINT EASTWOOD It's the imperfections that make things beautiful JENNY HAN Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We wa... A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We wa... ABDUL KALAM People see what they want to see SUSAN BETH PFEFFER Who cares what are you eating?? Who cares where are you? Who cares what are you posting??<... DEYTH BANGER
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