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The inevitability of gradualness cannot fail to be appreciated.

Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense.

You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.

Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.

You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.

There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.

We cannot go on as we are with 2.6 million people on incapacity benefit, 500,000 of them are under 35. Are we really saying there are half a million people in this country under 35 who are simply too ill to work? I don't think that's right.

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.

Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

Never cosign a loan. Once you have cosigned, you cannot get out of it - even on your deathbed.

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Something cannot emerge from nothing.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

The turnover with models - I cannot keep up. And in my day, we had so much personality. We probably caused a lot more trouble, but it was fun.