They Cannot Quotes
675 quotes by 531 authors
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Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If the Lord's people were only half as eager to be filled with the Spirit as they are to prove that they cannot be filled,…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do…
— Erich Fromm
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One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right.
— Washington Irving
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer:…
— Albert Einstein
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Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
— Samuel Johnson
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Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances... . That is exactly the position of women in the world of work today;…
— Susan B. Anthony
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Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal.
— Thomas Paine
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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown…
— James Bryce
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The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is essential in a…
— Milan Kundera
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Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw…
— Thomas Sowell
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That many-faceted thing called love succeeds in building bridges from the loneliness on this shore to the loneliness on the other one. These bridges can…
— Karen Horney
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Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must…
— Muriel Rukeyser
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There is no agreement on the extent to which metabolism could develop independently of a genetic material. In my opinion, there is no basis in…
— Leslie Orgel
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The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects.
— Jacques Maritain
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Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.
— Tom G. Palmer
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When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and…
— Carroll Quigley
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Most of the services staff is for the larger corporations, not so much for small and medium businesses because they cannot afford an extensive services…
— Kevin B. Rollins
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New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said…
— Joanna Southcott
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