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One of Us
«Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.»
Author: Claude Levi-Strauss
(Philosopher)
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belonging, class A, Continent, dweller, dwellers, European, European civilization, European country, for each one, in the first place, New class, New World, One of Us, played out, signifies
«All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this -- as in other ways -- they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
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according, forgets, looking at, One of Us, opposite, other ways, painter, painting, paintings, photo, photographed, photographing, photographs, record, remembers, remind, The photo, The Records, ways
«A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically, the mood of the men in the pinstripes, also known as the Boys on the Street. When the Boys are in a good mood, the market thrives; when they get scared or sullen, it is time for each one of us to look into the retail apple business.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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advanced, also known as, apple, enterprise, for each one, free enterprise, Free market, known as, look into, markets, mathematical, mood, moods, One of Us, pinstripe, pinstripes, retail, retailing, specifically, sullen, The Boys, the market
«Different ideas had been talked about, that we could do the background music or even write a new song or something, but this became the perfect vehicle because we always had a thing between the four of us that if any one of us wasn't in it, we weren'»
«Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
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craftsman, his mother, idols, One of Us, womb
«A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this.»
Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
(Activist, Monk, Writer)
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Bodhisattva, capable, compassion, One of Us
«Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities, and so on.»
Author: Dalai Lama
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and so, and so on, appointed, appointing, appoints, at peace, communities, community, countries, elected, electing, elects, example, for example, individually, Inner peace, leaders, lie with, neighboring, One of Us, particular, share, starts
«All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
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Humanity
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detach, detaching, family, humanity, indivisible, One Family, One of Us, responsible, responsible for, The Others, undivided, wickedest