Cannot Quotes
17188 quotes by 7215 authors
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If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make…
— A.J. Ayer
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I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot…
— William Howard Taft
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There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much…
— Clifford Truesdell
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Animals cannot speak, but can you and I not speak for them and represent them? Let us all feel their silent cry of agony and…
— Rukmini Devi Arundale
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If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.
— Pope Pius VI
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People have learned by bitter experience that the "European fraternal union of peoples" cannot be achieved by mere phrases and pious wishes, but only by…
— Friedrich Engels
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...the transition from capitalism to Socialism and the liberation of the working class from the yoke of capitalism cannot be effected by slow changes, by…
— J. Stalin
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...the West's main weakness remains unchanged: it cannot grasp the fact that it is facing an acceleration in the unfolding of Soviet convergence strategy which…
— Anatoliy Golitsyn
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The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the *government*, not to *society*; and as long as they have nothing to…
— Joel Barlow
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You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.
— Abdul Kalam
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One person cannot change the world. But you can become the world for someone. A warm, bright, and peaceful world. If everyone can be such…
— Enrique Iglesias
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The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay…
— Sun Tzu
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The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. To secure…
— Sun Tzu
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Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; (2) They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straight forwardness; (3) Without subtle ingenuity…
— Sun Tzu
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There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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If you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live a false life…
— Seneca the Younger
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Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot…
— J. Reuben Clark
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We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when…
— Desmond Tutu
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With trees and rocks and the sea and the stars and the clouds and the sun - you cannot be unreal, you cannot be phoney.…
— Rajneesh
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Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear their…
— Thomas Jefferson
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