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We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. — Cato the Elder
You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has… — H.G. Wells
You cannot trust a person until you know where and how he lives — Paulo Coelho
A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood. — Arthur Conan Doyle
The game cannot be won, only played. — Will Smith
We cannot fight for love, as men may do; we shou'd be woo'd, and were not made to woo — William Shakespeare
With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out — William Shakespeare
Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have. — Woodrow Wilson
Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of… — Wiley Blount Rutledge
A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only be setting someone free. — James A. Baldwin
Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and… — Simone de Beauvoir
Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both. — Alice Stone Blackwell
It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its… — Pearl S. Buck
Racism cannot be separated from capitalism. — Angela Davis
Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain. — Aubrey Thomas de Vere
Anti-Semitism hits me on the head: I am enraged, I am bled white by an appalling battle, I am deprived of the possibility of being… — Frantz Fanon
Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue. — James Gibbons
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom. — Amiri Baraka
Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness unless you attack… — June Jordan

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