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17188 Cannot quotes by 6763 unique authors
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Saddam Hussein's regime is despicable, he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked. He is a threat to…
— Tony Blair
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You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they…
— Wangari Maathai
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You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself. That values itself. That understands itself.
— Wangari Maathai
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The people are learning that you cannot leave decisions only to leaders. Local groups have to create the political will for change, rather than waiting…
— Wangari Maathai
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Those of us who witness the degraded state of the environment and the suffering that comes with it cannot afford to be complacent. We continue…
— Wangari Maathai
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You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people…
— Wangari Maathai
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But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the…
— Anne McCaffrey
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I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
— Terry Brooks
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Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made. And…
— Alcibiades
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When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a yearning for that…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
— Akira Kurosawa
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Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.
— Fernando Pessoa
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We cannot free ourselves unless we move forward united in a single desire.
— Unknown Author
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I found that I faced a highly complex situation, and that I couldnt hope to change it until I had armed myself with the necessary…
— Anwar Sadat
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Before (the Palestinians) very eyes we are possessing the land and the villages where they and their ancestors have lived We are the generation of…
— Moshe Dayan
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Some favorite expressions of small children: "It's not my fault...They made me do it...I forgot." Some favorite expressions of adults: "It's not my job...No one…
— Josiah Stamp
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For no matter what we achieve, if we don't spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect, we cannot possibly…
— James C. Collins
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My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . . . It's about…
— Anton Chekhov
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Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will be among the…
— Charles Lindbergh
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A country of a thousand war-chariots cannot be administered unless the ruler attends strictly to business, punctually observes his promises, is economical in expenditure, loves…
— Confucius
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Elderly people and those in authority cannot always be relied upon to take enlightened and comprehending views of what they call the indiscretions of youth.
— Winston Churchill
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