They Cannot Quotes
675 quotes by 531 authors
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The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the *government*, not to *society*; and as long as they have nothing to…
— Joel Barlow
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Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; (2) They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straight forwardness; (3) Without subtle ingenuity…
— Sun Tzu
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The main problem with those who deny the existence of God is not intellectual. It is not because of insufficient information, or that God's manifestation…
— R C Sproul
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Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove or establish their…
— Alvin Plantinga
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For the powers of our mind, life, and body are bound to their own limitations, and however high they may rise or however widely expand,…
— Sri Aurobindo
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In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea what this person…
— Richard John Neuhaus
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Discipline can only be obtained when all the officers are imbued with the sense of their awful obligation to their men and to their country…
— George S. Patton
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We are many small puppets moved by fate and fortune through strings unseen by us; therefore, if it is so as I think, one has…
— Marcello Malpighi
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I must try, however, as best I can, although I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and…
— Albert Einstein
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The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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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
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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
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...ordinary men and women may often feel unmotivated to exert their citizenship, either because they cannot tell the difference between the different alternatives, or because…
— Patricio Aylwin
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Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.
— Albert Camus
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One day, because they realize for some reason or other that they must stop credit expansion, the banks do stop creating new credit to lend.…
— Ludwig von Mises
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People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.
— John Steinbeck
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Men may flee from the sunlight to dark and musty caves of the earth, but they cannot put out the sun. So men may in…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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That's an interesting paradox to think about. Make it legal and it's no good. Why? Because as long as it's illegal the people who come…
— Milton Friedman
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It seems that the concealed carry policy now in effect in 30 states is unfair to goblins. They cannot tell who is armed and who…
— Jeff Cooper
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