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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society. — C.S. Lewis
I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it. — Albert Einstein
Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. — Bertrand Russell
What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know. — Bertrand Russell
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist. — Anton Chekhov
[The papists] ought to have sympathy with us weak, poor Christians, and not condemn us or make fun of us because we are learning so… — Martin Luther
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. — George Santayana
You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish. — Benjamin Franklin
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither… — Albert Einstein
I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The… — Albert Einstein
But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs… — Albert Einstein
To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are… — Thomas Jefferson
Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism. — Albert Einstein
Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep. — Luigi Pirandello
I believe it is in the national interest that government stand side-by-side with people of faith who work to change lives for the better. I… — George W. Bush
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome. — Charles Caleb Colton
If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves. — Elbert Hubbard
Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them. — George Santayana
Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths. — George Santayana

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