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Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey.

It doesn't matter whether you can or cannot achieve high temperature superconductivity or fuel cells, they will always be on the list because if you could achieve them they would be extremely valuable.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.

One cannot have economic growth without security.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

A race cannot be purified from without.

I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently.

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.