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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer.

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.

If we want to boost border security, we have to help law enforcement agencies beef up their resources to meet this demand. We cannot have one without the other.

I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered.

Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They're in the Congressional Record.

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed.

I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil.

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.

The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.

Let them bomb Japan with that nasty missile. Their missile cannot load a nuclear warhead.

Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking.

There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.