The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.
Czesław Miłosz
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NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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NEIL GAIMAN The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think t...
MARQUIS DE CUSTINE ...for who can speak of the Mazes of the Serpent to those who are not lost in them?
PETER ACKROYD We speak for those who cannot speak. We have a duty to tell the stories for those who do not have th...
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people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of trut...
CZESłAW MIłOSZ Learning
To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magni...
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CZESłAW MIłOSZ Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
CZESłAW MIłOSZ Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.
CZESłAW MIłOSZ Forget the suffering
You caused others.
Forget the suffering
Others caused you.
...
CZESłAW MIłOSZ To be a man and live among men is miraculous, even if we know the vile deeds and crimes that people ...
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UMBERTO ECO Great stories happen to those who can tell them
IRA GLASS Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do some...
YOLANDA ADAMS Listen to other people tell their story, but don't believe them. You know that it's just a s...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
ALAN WATTS I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of...
BARACK OBAMA Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others.
SENECA Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
ERIC ROTH The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
JANE GOODALL A marriage, willy-nilly, requires you to trust that your spouse will tell your story truthfully and ...
KATE BRAESTRUP For those who have true love, have no limits of expressing their love to one another yet it is a sad...
AULIQ ICE There are four kinds of people in the world, Ms. Harper. Those who build walls. Those who protect wa...
P.S. BABER As our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines defend the nation, ... they must know that their countr...
JERRY SIEGEL Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Your ears love to hear, so speak to it
SOTONYE ANGA Let those only return to their homes who are called by the imperative duties which they owe to their...
GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Once those products are opened, we can no longer sell them at full price, so we have to make up for ...
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BLAISE PASCAL God's green earth can no longer sustain itself for those who worship the golden calf. Those who have...
STEPHEN BIRO Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. T...
MAX BEERBOHM I stand for all those who feel that the government no longer understands the individual and no longe...
HARVEY MILK Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same in...
GEORGE ELIOT I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you not...
BERNIE MAC Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit a...
MADELEINE M. KUNIN The still image continues to have a ton of strength. An image taken out of context from one fraction...
JILL GREENBERG In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to...
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CATHY MCMORRIS RODGERS - Mrzim sve što je odricanje!
- Ni ja, Ivane, ne pristajem da se odričem. Ja hoću ceo, sav, ...
DOBRICA ĆOSIć She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She s...
ELIZABETH WINDER Those who always speak well of women do not know them sufficiently; those who always speak ill of th...
GUILLAUME PIGUALT-LEBRUN Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions ...
CHRISTOPHER LASCH Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only ga...
ARISTOTLE Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Every day that passes, mankind takes one more step closer towards its final destination; a living he...
ROOZBEH ARANIPOUR Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth.
VOLTAIRE There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, ...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
ERIC HOFFER I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... thei...
MALALA YOUSAFZAI Watch out for the dream killer or those who try to speak against what God has said. I make no apolog...
ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE May our daily choices be a reflection of our deepest values, and may we use our voices to speak for ...
COLLEEN PATRICK-GOUDREAU It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better....
RICK MERCER Those who can't speak join Toastmasters; Those who can also join.
GREG GAZIN Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions ...
CHRISTOPHER LASCH The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Them as can do, has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.
TERRY PRATCHETT Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.
TERRY PRATCHETT When BEE in life not desirable , how can FREEBIES be.
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the larks can no longer sing
the birds can no longer fly
they've c...
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VOLTAIRE To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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ARTHUR GOLDEN I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.
ARTHUR GOLDEN The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
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RICK WARREN We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed
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