They Cannot Quotes
675 quotes by 531 authors
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They [INTJs] are likely, however, to organize themselves out of a job. They cannot continually reorganize the same thing, and a finished product has no…
— Isabel Briggs Myers
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We do children an enormous disservice when we assume that they cannot appreciate anything beyond drive through fare and nutritionally marginal, kid-targeted convenience foods. Our…
— Victoria Moran
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I do not enlighten those who are not eager to learn, nor arouse those who are not anxious to give an explanation themselves. If I…
— Confucius
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The one thing the terrorists cannot do -- not one of them, not 10 of them, not 10,000 of them -- they cannot change who…
— Colin Powell
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Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work and…
— Frank Herbert
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Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life; and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape…
— Samuel Johnson
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Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of…
— Noah Webster
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It's a matter of seeing the original meaning of all things. The world is full of all kinds of meanings. But our minds are so…
— Yi Mun-yol
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I’d been part, albeit unwillingly, of making millions of women feel that they are to blame if they cannot manage to rise up the ladder…
— Anne-Marie Slaughter
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The alternative to forgiveness, but by no means its opposite, is punishment, and both have in common that they attempt to put an end to…
— Hannah
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Dream big dreams! Others may deprive you of your material wealth and cheat you in a thousand ways, but no man can deprive you of…
— Jesse Jackson
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The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates. They are kept…
— Albert Schweitzer
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The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they…
— Eric Hoffer
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Usually they are quick to discover that I cannot see or hear.... It is not training but love which impels them to break their silence…
— Helen Keller
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I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they…
— Barney Frank
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It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and…
— Samuel Adams
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Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for…
— Calvin Coolidge
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If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such…
— Samuel Adams
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The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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