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We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is… — Alphonse de Lamartine
It is a terrible, an inexorable law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim,… — James A. Baldwin
It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government. — Thomas Jefferson
Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory. — Albert Einstein
I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way. — Kazuo Ishiguro
No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters,… — W. Somerset Maugham
The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and… — Flannery O'Connor
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a plot.… — E. M. Forster
We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto. — Henry David Thoreau
The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
People who look for easy money invariable pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this earth. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet. — George Washington
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not. — Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but we pay heavily… — Garrett Hardin
Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence. Ostensibly, their aim… — H. L. Mencken
Your life is a learning process - you can only become wiser from learning. Sometimes you might have to attract making a painful mistake to… — Rhonda Byrne
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode. — Unknown Author
Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation. — Ban Ki-moon
I still cannot fathom how difficult it was for the women I met to find out that they were HIV-positive. It is such a courageous… — Gabriel Byrne
I spent the past week here in India getting a sense of the reality of HIV and AIDS in people's lives. Fathers and mothers are… — Ralph Fiennes
War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be separated from one… — Milan Kundera
I am tired of the superficial smiles that adorn the many ghouls among us. I am tired of the righteous indignation that hides beneath those… — Corey Taylor
You cannot solve a problem until you acknowledge that you have one and accept responsibility for solving it. — Zig Ziglar
We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will… — Stephen Jay Gould

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