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We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War on Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely ever to be… — Unknown Author
As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred, that we cannot… — James Hutton
For the little that one has reflected on the origin of our knowledge, it is easy to perceive that we can acquire it only by… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our… — Antoine Lavoisier
Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it cannot limit that… — James Hutton
As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science, without at the… — Antoine Lavoisier
We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently wait for, but… — John Ambrose Fleming
O Lord, we cannot go to the pool of Siloe to which you sent the blind man. But we have the chalice of Your Precious… — Ephrem the Syrian
We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom we come in… — Isabel Briggs Myers
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth. — Angela Thirkell
There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking… — Bridget of Sweden
I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative. — Unknown Author
The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture. — Robert McAfee Brown
The hero dead cannot expire: The dead still play their part. — Unknown Author
I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing… — Peter Medawar
Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real… — Ruth Hubbard
Money alone cannot build character or transform evil into good. It cries for full partnership with leaders of character and good will who value good… — Unknown Author
Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise. — Marquis de Custine
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and… — John Winthrop
We need justice. We need toleration, honesty and moral courage. These are modern virtues without which we cannot hope to control the forces science has… — Unknown Author
It is loving the Cross that one finds one heart, for Divine Love cannot live without suffering. — Bernadette Soubirous
The only security lies in individual, personal honesty, The law cannot make people honest. — Unknown Author
Will cannot be quenched against its will. — Dante Alighieri
Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint. — Arshile Gorky
One of my surgical giant friends had in his operating room a sign "If the operation is difficult, you aren't doing it right." What he… — Joseph Murray

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