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17188 Cannot quotes by 6763 unique authors
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A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission of the Jewish…
— Elie Wiesel
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Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made, not born. I…
— Mark Twain
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The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to…
— Samuel Johnson
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Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends,…
— Cyril Connolly
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You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It [Great Britain] is the country with the worst food after Finland.
— Jacques Chirac
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There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to agree that we…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise manĀ“s wisdom even if he associates with a…
— Dalai Lama
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We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it.
— Rumi
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Though we cannot understand "the meaning of all things," we do "know that God loveth his children" because He has said, "Behold, this is my…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice…
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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All who are caught in its seductive, tantalizing web and remain so will become addicted to its immoral, destructive influence. For many, that addiction cannot…
— Richard G. Scott
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We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement.…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Generations of women have sacrificed their lives to become their mothers. But we do not have that luxury any more. The world has changed too…
— Erica Jong
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You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live…
— Faith Baldwin
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We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the…
— Pablo Casals
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We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our…
— Carolyn Maloney
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Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket. Such questions include,…
— Lynn Margulis
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But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.
— James Madison
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Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot…
— Bell Hooks
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If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for…
— Leo Tolstoy
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We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is stale - identity…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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The right procedure: You begin at the wrong end if you first dispute about your election. Prove your conversion, and then never doubt your election.…
— Joseph Alleine
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We know there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive it only by the beams,…
— Thomas Adams
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