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We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the… — Viktor E. Frankl
I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot comprehend, that they… — Tom Robbins
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or… — Jack Kornfield
Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we… — Fritjof Capra
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A revolution is coming â€“ a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are… — John F. Kennedy
All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they… — Neil Gaiman
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say… — C.S. Lewis
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference… — Patrick Henry
The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot… — Nhat Hanh
We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my… — Camille Paglia
We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt. If we cannot comprehend why… — Sharon Kay Penman
It is always man's ideas which drive his actions. This has, at times, resulted in great evil; but as we look around us, we cannot… — Steven Brust
We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws. — Hunter S. Thompson
Life hinges on many factors we cannot control. Two of the most important factors, we can control. We can manage our relationships-and what is life… — Leon Uris
We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it. — John Adams
My dear, dear girl [. . .] we can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when… — Thomas Wolfe
Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to,… — Michael Ondaatje

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