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We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra. — William Kingdon Clifford
Research cannot be forced very much. There is always danger of too much foliage and too little fruit. — Theobald Smith
Tapestries are made by many artisans working together. The contributions of separate workers cannot be discerned in the completed work, and the loose and false… — Sheldon Lee Glashow
You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to… — Richard Dawkins
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. — Agnes Repplier
When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself. — Brian Tracy
...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood. — Francis of Assisi
People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as… — Samuel Johnson
One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on… — Victor Hugo
A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its… — Lewis H. Lapham
Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer. — Charles Caleb Colton
When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern… — Edmund Burke
There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We cannot really think in one way and act in another... — Thomas Troward
The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do. — Richard DeVos
Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which… — William Hazlitt
Weak people cannot be sincere. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot… — Leonardo da Vinci
The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet… — Laozi

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