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Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

I will accept the results when the election is free and clean. I cannot accept fraud.

Condi Rice talks tough but she cannot be tough herself.

Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like.

The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

We cannot have another experience like we've had in my freshman class, of people saying one thing and doing another.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

The fact is that it is reasonable for us to say that there is going to be an emergency that happens in this country that we cannot budget for. Katrina is an example.

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

You can only hate someone whom you have the capacity to love, because if you are really indifferent, you cannot even get up the enough energy to hate him.

Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.