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One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living. — Emile M. Cioran
We want only peace, to build up our country. World opinion is paying great attention to the threat against Democratic Kampuchea. They are anxious. They… — Pol Pot
Independence cannot be real if a nation depends upon gifts. — Julius Nyerere
From what we cannot hold, the stars are made. — W S Merwin
If abandoning animal research means that there are some things we cannot learn, then so be it ... We have no basic right ... not… — Tom Regan
I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer.... People's general awareness is… — Kate Bush
Some events are in the area of the soul where words cannot penetrate. — Neal Cassady
Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same... You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet… — Heraclitus
The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing… — Soren Kierkegaard
It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep. — John Cage
Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot, — John Cage
Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight… — Leontyne Price
As for my voice, it cannot be categorized-and I like it that way, because I sing things that would be considered in the dramatic, mezzo… — Jessye Norman
In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it. — A. Philip Randolph
Wanted: More Praise I cannot help believing that the world will be a better and a happier place when people are praised more and blamed… — Frances E. Willard
My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's… — Jefferson Davis
Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people . — Jefferson Davis
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our… — William Tecumseh Sherman
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. — William Tecumseh Sherman
There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the… — Robert E. Lee
The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He cannot only forgive, he can… — Robert E. Lee
You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey. — Robert E. Lee
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders… — John Dos Passos
South Africans have no concept of time and this is also why we can't solve poverty and social problems… It's now 10 years since the… — Nelson Mandela
I cannot but say a word and look my disapproval when I hear that my country is spending millions for war and war engines-more, I… — Helen Keller

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