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We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom we come in… — Isabel Briggs Myers
Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real… — Ruth Hubbard
We need justice. We need toleration, honesty and moral courage. These are modern virtues without which we cannot hope to control the forces science has… — I. A. R. Wylie
In contemporary society, advertising is everywhere. We cannot walk down the street, shop, watch television, go through our mail, log on to the Internet, read… — Guy Cook
We cannot by ourselves reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world, but we are doing what has to be done all over the… — David Lange
You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see. — Richard Martin Stern
In geology we cannot dispense with conjectures: [but] because we are condemned to dream let us ensure that our dreams are like those of sane… — Scipione Breislak
We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is… — A.J. Ayer
The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated from the turmoil… — Gerald Holton
We cannot step aside and say that we have achieved our goal by inventing a new drug or a new way by which to treat… — George W. Bush
We do not know how God created, what processes He used, for God used processes which are not now operating anywhere in the natural universe.… — Duane Gish
We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when… — Desmond Tutu
We cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with our beliefs. — John C. Maxwell
Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it. — Michel de Montaigne
Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
There are many levels of life which we cannot see and know, yet which certainly exist. There is a larger world, vast enough to include… — Manly Hall
Worship of The Lotus Feet of The Spiritual Master: There is no work as auspicious as serving the spiritual master. Of all worship, the worship… — Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
Things of heaven cannot be obtained by perseverance; they are the grace of God. To open to this and trust in it is how belief… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease. — Elizabeth I

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