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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
We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature. — Abraham Lincoln
Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other… — Abraham Lincoln
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means… — Thomas Jefferson
The liberal appropriations made by the legislature of Kentucky for a general system of education cannot be too much applauded . . . . Learned… — James Madison
Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or… — Thomas Carlyle
If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go. — Mark Twain
You cannot stop smoking directly because it has many related things, implications. You are tense, and if you stop smoking you will start something else… — Rajneesh
You may have decided again and again, and again and again you have failed - not because smoking is such a great phenomenon that you… — Rajneesh
A meditator cannot smoke, for the simple reason that he never feels nervous, in anxiety, in tension. Smoking helps - on a momentary basis -… — Rajneesh

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