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I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act — Jurgen Habermas
A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish. — Karl Marx
The world, in resting upon the earth, strives to surmount it. As self-opening it cannot endure anything closed. The earth, however, as sheltering and concealing,… — Martin Heidegger
If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend… — Hannah Arendt
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish. — Jean-Paul Sartre
You're mistaken; men of sense often learn much from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learnt from a friend: but… — Aristophanes
I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least… — Hans Christian Andersen
A fool cannot hold his tongue. — Plutarch
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that… — Augustus
You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a… — Hubert H. Humphrey
We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life . .… — Ronald Reagan
We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or… — Ronald Reagan
Acting on our own, by ourselves, we cannot establish justice throughout the world, but joined with other free nations, we can ... assist the developing… — John F. Kennedy
The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.' — John F. Kennedy
The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no… — Virginia Woolf
Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. — Sol LeWitt
Condi Rice talks tough but she cannot be tough herself. — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for the purpose of… — Saddam Hussein
I cannot figure out what Dadaism is. But if the baroness is to be a keystone for it, then I think I can possibly know… — Hart Crane
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it… — Charles Babbage

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