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Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them. -- Julian Baggini
We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them. -- Jon Ronson
In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them. -- Mother Teresa
This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist. -- Marjane Satrapi
Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed. -- Romano Prodi
The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political. -- Dave Matthews
The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political." -- Dave Matthews
China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type scenario. -- Bill Gates
We live in a world where everything is connected. We can not longer think in terms of us and them when it comes to the consequences of the way we live. Today it's all about WE. -- Gregg Braden
The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and them. If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite. -- Alex Steffen
There is no 'them' and 'us.' There is only us. -- Greg Boyle
It shows 'us vs. them', and I'm on the 'us' side. -- Dan Quayle
Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them. -- Dick Cavett
Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them. -- Lee H. Hamilton
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Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them. -- Shakti Gawain
Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought. -- Hermann von Helmholtz
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside. -- Henry David Thoreau
Most babies know how to win us over. We cannot help but smile at them and watch them smile back. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us. -- Quentin Blake
What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us. -- John Gay
At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other. -- William Adams
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them. -- Allen Tate
Even the Us's are Them's. -- Darnell Lamont Walker
Don't let them tell us stories -- Albert Camus
cats choose us; we don't own them -- P. C. Cast
God hides things by putting them near us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't divide the world into "them" and "us." -- Donald Rumsfeld
Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality. -- Alexandra Robbins
The NBA needs more of that 'it's-about-us-against-them' mentality. -- Scott Brooks
God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly. -- Catherine the Great
Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them! -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them. -- Ernest Hemingway
Our memories make us... even the darkest of them all. -- Nalini Singh
if there isn't a them, there can't be an us. -- Jodi Picoult
There is no Them. There are only facets of Us. -- John Green
Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy. -- N. F. Simpson
God does not punish us for our sins but by them. -- Ruth Graham
If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us ... -- Constance Fenimore Woolson
Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection. -- Victor Hugo
Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with. -- Vladimir Lenin
Dogs give us something just as we give something to them. -- Robert Crais
Few of us write great novels; all of us live them. -- Mignon McLaughlin
We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us. -- Hermann Hesse
They left us together for a reason. Let's show them why. -- Patrick Kane
Literature throws us many great heroes. Real life invariably outdoes them. -- Wilbur Smith
Those who hate us only win if we hate them back -- Richard M. Nixon
When it's too hard for them, it's just right for us. -- Marv Levy
Our stories can set us free. When we set them free. -- Francesca Lia Block
People treat us the way we teach them to treat us. -- Wayne Dyer
We're out for revenge and I fancy us to beat them! -- Sam Torrance
Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us. -- Martin Luther
Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Our possessions don't own us any more, because we don't possess them. -- Dan Davis
Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves. -- Michael Moorcock
We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing. -- Matt Taibbi
The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us. -- Oliver Stone
We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around. -- Geraldine Ferraro
Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too. -- Paulo Coelho
Some things become such a part of us that we forget them. -- Antonio Porchia
When we have great treasures before us, we can never see them. -- Paulo Coelho
Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them. -- Meher Baba
Screw us once, shame on them; screw us twice, shame on us. -- Jessica Zafra
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. -- George Eliot
No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys. -- Douglas Horton
Naysayers have little power over us - unless we give it to them. -- Arianna Huffington
Love mistakes, as it's us that receives blessings from them in the end. -- Minzy
He would have us like children who believe what their father tells them. -- Charles Spurgeon
Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves. -- Adam Dunn
It was you and me, Tom. We did this to them. To us. -- James Dashner
Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them. -- Henry David Thoreau
Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully. -- Zig Ziglar
I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them. -- Vera Farmiga
America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them. -- Archibald MacLeish
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Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them. -- William Gurnall
We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them. -- Benito Mussolini
God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them. -- Richard J. Needham
If we had not driven them into hell, hell would have swallowed us. -- Alexander Suvorov
The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them. -- Vladimir Ilich Lenin
We are not going to play them; they are going to play us. -- Henry Iba
Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them. -- Franklin P. Adams
Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress. -- Frank Pittman
What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
Religion teaches us to fight against our natural instincts but it thrives on them -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Ability means all of us finding our strengths and putting them to full use. -- Kathleen Wynne
Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us. -- Molly Ivins
Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us. -- Benjamin Franklin
We should not treat people as they treat us, we should treat them better. -- Tariq Ramadan
Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them. -- Willa Cather
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. -- John Updike
the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run. -- Voltaire
Remember,even if we can't see them, those we love are always with us. -- Lucinda Riley
As long as we can remember them, our families will always be with us. -- Joseph Bruchac
God sends us pieces of art so that we may see ourselves in them -- Vincent Van Gogh
...in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them -- Thomas Jefferson
Truly it it not the tragedies that destroy us, but the memories of them. -- Christopher Pike
They took one from us last time, so now we took one from them -- Kevin Martin
Saturn doesn't ask us to give up our dreams, only to make them real. -- Steven Forrest
Sincerity may not help us make friends, but it will help us keep them. -- John Wooden
We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us. -- Adam Jones
To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination. -- Donald Sutherland
Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them. -- Richard Paul Evans
We don't back off obstacles and tough situations, we use them to make us stronger. -- Jada Pinkett Smith
As for them pretty light-skinned models standin in the cold, ah yeah they with us. -- Drake
Serving reconnects people to purpose. Serving someone else's dream empowers not just us, but them. -- Bill Johnson
Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them. -- Billy Graham
We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us. -- A. N. Wilson
What originally led us to serve others by leading them seldom remains our North Star. -- Dan B. Allender
Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words! -- Nathan Hale
Because we find somethings distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem them criminal. -- Moby
They don't respect us, so let's surprise them, we'll drop the big one, pulverize them. -- Randy Newman
All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them. -- Charles Dickens
Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn't even write them down. -- Bob Goff
What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them. -- Kathy Reichs

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