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History has taught us: never underestimate the amount of money, time, and effort someone will expend to thwart a security system. It's always better to… — Bruce Schneier
The more we study the major problems of our time, the more we come to realise that they cannot be understood in isolation. They are… — Fritjof Capra
There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot… — Ayn Rand
Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them. — Katherine Anne Porter
I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and… — Bertrand Russell
The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to… — John Arbuthnot
Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend. — Samuel Johnson
If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal… — Orrin Hatch
Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty. — Aristotle
The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him… — George Orwell
All Jesus' pictures are falsifications; they cannot be about the real Jesus. This real man must have been totally different, because we know he enjoyed… — Rajneesh
Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things simply… — Rajneesh
If you have desires, try to look - are those desires the cause of your misery? Nobody wants misery, but nobody is willing to drop… — Rajneesh
And desires are never here and now - they are non-existential. They are just mental, in the mind. And they cannot be fulfilled because their… — Rajneesh
We can never obtain peace in the world if we neglect the inner world and don't make peace with ourselves. World peace must develop out… — Dalai Lama
My men are being unmercifully shelled. They cannot hold out if an attack is launched. The firing line and my headquarters are being plastered with… — Gordon Bennett
Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice. — Erik Erikson
There are several realms which ordinary persons do not perceive. Because they cannot see them, that doesn't mean they don't exist. One of these realms… — Thrangu Rinpoche
Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise. — Marquis de Custine
I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra. — Nicolas Malebranche

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