Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.
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Related Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbe... PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP People need to speak out about their feelings to those of us who are in denial, ERIC LOVE It is fear which leads us to war, ... It is fear which leads us to believe that we must kill or be k... DENNIS KUCINICH We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who m... SAMUEL BUTLER We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by the... US DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Those of us who believe in God and those of us who have dedicated our lives to helping others in the... DICK DURBIN This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe r... ELIZABETH GILBERT Of all the things I have done, the most vital is coordinating the talents of those who work for us a... 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NOUWEN There's a duality of a guy calling on God: 'Where are you when I need you?' and then, at... JOE CARNAHAN Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who... CYRIL CONNOLLY [...] and after those big strokes, what's to tell? We run out of things that make us individual very... DOUGLAS COUPLAND It's very important to see others than those of us coming in with a big chunk of money participating... LORRY LOKEY Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. 2 Kings 6:16 BIBLE On the religious Right and religious people in general have the feeling that the world is not just m... JONATHAN HAIDT Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do. ROBERT K. MUELLER We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained. MAURICE HULST Since we fear most that which is unknown to us, defining moments of change occur when we choose to k... LEE J. COLAN Those of us in public office and those of us who aspire to public office have a responsibility to be... JEH JOHNSON It is a way for us to recognize the heroic actions not only for those who died, but for those who st... JOSEPH CROWLEY Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who actually do. ANONYMOUS Followers of Christ are not called to be merely tolerant of others. We are called to love those who ... TIM MUEHLHOFF If I'm not thinking about one shit storm, I have to think about another. KAREN M. MCMANUS We doubt in others, what is in fact in ourselves. The skeletons in your own closet are the things th... C. JOYBELL C. Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, w... JORGE LUIS BORGES Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add a... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of ... AUDRE LORDE We are concentrating on the religious elements, using religious terminology, in trying to appeal to ... IBRAHIM SARSUR We have need of patience with ourselves and with others; with those below and those above us, and wi... EDWARD B. PUSEY The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once (we soon feel ungrateful) or tho... ALAIN BOTTON The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once (we soon feel ungrateful) or tho... ALAIN DE BOTTON The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent. 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RALPH WALDO EMERSON It's great that Time is moving in the direction of validating those who, by choice or circumstan... MEGHAN DAUM All of us deplore the acts of terrorism that we have seen in these last minutes, and our hearts reac... EDWARD KENNEDY All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop those ... JOHN F. KENNEDY I do not know many people who think they have succeeded as parents. Those who do tend to cite the ma... JOAN DIDION Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as po... JONATHAN DEE The hatred of those who are near to us is the most violent PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Those of you who think you know everything are annoying to those of us who do. DAVID BRENT This is particularly true of those who "love too much" and those who tend to lose themselves in thei... BEVERLY ENGEL We have a government that boasts about free education. 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PIRSIG Those of us who watched him in the courtroom know that win or lose, he is one of the best trial lawy... DAVID BERG And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ide... KAREN ARMSTRONG
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