Cannot Quotes
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I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete.…
— Norman Cousins
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Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings, and…
— John Dickinson
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If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good…
— Thomas A. Edison
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We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free…
— William Faulkner
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People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a…
— Eric Hoffer
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The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended…
— Samuel Johnson
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A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.
— Euripides
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The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts…
— Thomas Jefferson
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My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.
— A B Simpson
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Human kind cannot bear much reality.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I prithee send me back my heart, Since I cannot have thine; For if from yours you will not part, Why, then, shouldst thou have…
— John Suckling
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The Christian faith, simply stated, reminds us that our fundamental problem is not moral; rather, our fundamental problem is spiritual. It is not just that…
— Ravi Zacharias
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The more we study the major problems of our time, the more we come to realise that they cannot be understood in isolation. They are…
— Fritjof Capra
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But love is blind and lovers cannot see
— William Shakespeare
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The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.
— Theodor Reik
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As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
— John Lancaster Spalding
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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
— Jean Paul
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That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
— Antonio Porchia
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The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a…
— Helen Keller
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