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These quotes use 'our' to point at collective stakes, from expecting transparency out of government to naming the real economic cost of persistent inequality. For more on civic accountability, see Government quotes.
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Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.
If you repress rather than unlock the potential of large groups of Americans, what's that going to do to our economy? It's going to contract, not expand.
It is of no use to discover our own faults and infirmities unless the discovery prompts up to amendment.
Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.
The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.
As part of our research, we monitor just about every announced deal globally that is in excess of a billion dollars.
The industrialization of China alone would increase by 90 percent the concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere and would at least increase the atmospheric CO2 by at least another 100 parts per million.
Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.
The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.
We created the hierarchical, pyramidal, managerial system because we needed it to keep track of people and things people did; with the computer to keep track, we can restructure our institutions horizontally.
Quite frankly, I'm a member of the investigative committee, one of the senior members of the panel. I don't take our investigative facts and information from a magazine or some article.
Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
