People Who Cannot Quotes
41 quotes by 38 authors
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
— Warren G. Bennis
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In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
— S I Hayakawa
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
— Agnes Repplier
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When you then establish the law that says you can't discriminate against people who are homosexual, what you're really saying is you're putting the power…
— Scott Lively
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The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain…
— William S. Burroughs
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Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on specialization. A class…
— Jacques Ellul
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There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.
— Marie-Louise von Franz
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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.
— John Jay Chapman
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People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is…
— Richard Mitchell
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Forks and spoons have probably done more to reconcile people who cannot agree than guns and bombs ever did
— Theodore Zeldin
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Portability is for people who cannot write new programs
— Linus Torvalds
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People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else.
— Brian Reynolds Myers
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In the best of relationships you have two people who cannot think of anything that was not part of the deal.
— Robert Breault
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
— Joseph Campbell
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The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one where opportunities are abundant. In…
— Eric Hoffer
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Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
— May Sarton
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For people who cannot get to church for various reasons, this is a great option. But it will always be a poor substitute for joining…
— Craig Detweiler
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The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry,…
— Robert Genn
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They say it's not the snoring itself but those anxiety-packed moments in between snorts. It's the waiting for the nasal passages of the person lying…
— Sloane Crosley
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There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state…
— Christopher Hitchens
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