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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye… — Chinua Achebe
A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs. — Chinua Achebe
You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the forest? You may… — Chinua Achebe
When you talk about the oil wealth you compare nations. There are some nations with less than five million people. Nigeria has 150 million people.… — Goodluck Jonathan
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves. — V.S. Naipaul
It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether these actions emanate… — Carl Jung
We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology. — Carl Jung
A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning — Carl Rogers
We cannot protect our children from life. Therefore, it is essential that we prepare them for it. — Rudolf Dreikurs
We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot… — Viktor E. Frankl
One cannot afford to be a realist. — Albert Bandura
Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change. — Albert Bandura
We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.' — B.F. Skinner
The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world.… — William James
There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. — Will Durant
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. — Pauline Kael
Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she. — Elizabeth Hardwick
Compassion may be called the fundamental of all good art because it alone can tell you what other beings feel and experience. Only compassion severs… — Michael Chekhov
Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any experience,… — Max Horkheimer
Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world. — Herbert Marcuse
I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act — Jurgen Habermas
A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish. — Karl Marx
The world, in resting upon the earth, strives to surmount it. As self-opening it cannot endure anything closed. The earth, however, as sheltering and concealing,… — Martin Heidegger
If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend… — Hannah Arendt
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish. — Jean-Paul Sartre

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