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While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at… — Minor White
If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it? — Lee Strasberg
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye… — Chinua Achebe
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves. — V.S. Naipaul
It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether these actions emanate… — Carl Jung
We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology. — Carl Jung
We cannot protect our children from life. Therefore, it is essential that we prepare them for it. — Rudolf Dreikurs
We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.' — B.F. Skinner
The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world.… — William James
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish. — Jean-Paul Sartre
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that… — Augustus
We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life . .… — Ronald Reagan
We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or… — Ronald Reagan
Acting on our own, by ourselves, we cannot establish justice throughout the world, but joined with other free nations, we can ... assist the developing… — John F. Kennedy
The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.' — John F. Kennedy
Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget. — Bill T. Jones
We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be amassed through the… — David Mamet
We cannot leap into world government through one quick step.... The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by that we move… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that work is a… — Madeleine L'Engle
I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own furious love. — Joy Harjo

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