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Us with our busy, busy little lives, finding no better way to pass our years than in competitive disdain.
~ Iain M. Banks
In the last 21 months, if you've learnt anything, it's that the state is back. If the free market fails, it's not because it's been defeated by state capitalism; the only people that can defeat the free market is us, we're the only ones who can destroy it.
~ Ian Bremmer
thirty-five-woman team made up the first known all-female catapult crew in US military history.
~ Unknown
Smouldering Fire was first published in the U.K. in 1935 and in the U.S. in 1938. Later reprints were all heavily abridged. For our reprint, Furrowed Middlebrow and Dean Street Press have followed the text of the first U.K. edition,
~ D.E. Stevenson
There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it.
~ Len G. Murray
My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.
~ Evan Bayh
It is a challenge to all of us, and it's a challenge we need to meet, to make sure the Quincy Veterans' Home is, in fact, giving the best care and the safest care in the state.
~ Dick Durbin
We need to stop the vicious cycle of debt that is strangling us.
~ Beppe Grillo
We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us.
~ Louise Jameson
But even before Obama had a chance to carve out a name for himself as a drone-happy serial killer in the Middle East, the US made it clear that it was not going to play benign hegemon in its Latin American backyard.
~ Liza Featherstone
It's not that serious I never put that much thought into us It wasn't that I loved you I was curious
~ Unknown
I have never belonged to a tribe. It gives me a different perspective. Perhaps if I did, I too would feel ill at ease in Les Marauds. But I have always been different. Perhaps that's why I find it easier to cross the narrow boundaries between one tribe and the next. To belong so often means to exclude; to think in terms of us and them - to little words that, juxtaposed, so often lead to conflict.
~ Joanne Harris
With us nothing has time to gather meaning, and too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold.
~ W.B. Yeats
SAMUEL: Besides, we can offer you but little temptation to remain with us. We don't seem to make piracy pay. I'm sure I don't know why, but we don't.
~ Unknown
The crisis in Europe has affected the US economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence and pressuring US financial markets and institutions.
~ Ben Bernanke
There are real solutions right now for us if we stand up with the courage of our convictions.
~ Jill Stein
On the quantum level, reality is spookily fragile and can be manipulated. By whom? By us. —Ganesh Patel
~ Dean Koontz
From Siemens's perspective, a trade agreement like TTIP makes the U.S. and E.U. members more attractive.
~ Joe Kaeser
The NBC using us on air is a great endorsement of quality.
~ Dave Goldberg
Life is precious, love is a gift. The sun might not always shine on us. But those will be the days that we take pleasure in the rain.
~ Inglath Cooper
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agents are even more balls
~ Iris Johansen
On July 28 Senator Tim Wirth of Colorado, along with 18 co-sponsors from both political parties, introduced the National Energy Policy Act of 1988, calling for a 20% reduction in US carbon dioxide emissions from 1988 levels by the year 2000.
~ Dale Jamieson
The pendulum of our great nation seems to have swung toward conceit and unsteadiness once again, but it is in our power to wrest it back. Our government is there to serve us, not the other way around.
~ Dan Rather
My parents were lovers of books, and they raised us in a manner that viewed freedom and subversion as indispensable.
~ Leila Slimani