Can Not Quotes - Page 9

• My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.

  Tracy Kidder

  Struggle, People, Care

  "Mission impossible" by Tracy Kidder, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2001.

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• I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world-enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites-causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Hate, Real, War

  Speech, Peoria, Ill., 16 Oct. 1854

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• But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Law, Needs

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.408, Wildside Press LLC

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• You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them, or too grasping to care for what you can not turn to other account than mere delight.

  John Ruskin

  Fun, World, Care

  John Ruskin (1858). “The Stones of Venice”, p.44

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• I don't really see how any song can not feel contrived if it isn't honest, and how could I write honest songs if I don't write about stuff going on in my life and how I'm feeling?

  Lily Allen

  Song, Writing, Feelings

  "Lily Allen: 'I go through a major life change once a year'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2010.

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• The events which can not be prevented, must be directed.

  Klemens von Metternich

  Events

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• You CAN NOT judge previous generations by today's standards. Today Mark Twain is called by many, a racist. By the standards of his time, he was a social liberal. Even Teddy Roosevelt was a social liberal at the time, but he accepted as fact that idea that Caucasians were inherently superior to all other races. That makes him a racist in the CORRECT definition of the term.

  Neal Boortz

  Ideas, Race, Judging

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• The only thing Christianity can not be...is moderately important.

  C. S. Lewis

  Important, Christianity

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• Instead of putting others down, try improving yourself instead. The only person you have a right to compete with is you. In the meantime, treat others how you'd like to be treated. One trait that some of the best (communicators) share is empathy. A couple of kind words can not only make a person's day, but earn you a friend and supporter for life. For the rest of the week, whenever you see someone you want to judge negatively, pay them a compliment instead. See what happens.

  Neil Strauss

  Couple, Judging, Empathy

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• If you can not win, make the enemy pay a steep price for victory

  Carlson Gracie

  Winning, Victory, Enemy

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• One can not be just if one is not humane.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Humane, Ifs

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Réflexions, XXVIII, p. 413-15, 1922.

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• There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Powerful, Not Giving Up

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• Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Change, Heart, Past

  Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois

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• There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.

  Pliny the Elder

  Book

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• Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily think of what they are doing as an exercise in grammar.

  Richard Mitchell

  Exercise, Thinking, Mind

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• It has been our experience that if a young man decides to go on a mission, he can not only play well when he returns, he will often play better. If an athlete could play well before he went on a mission, he will definitely play well when he returns; and, if an athlete could not play well before his mission, he probably won't play well when he returns. However, his chances of playing well are perhaps better if he goes because he will return with . . . better work habits, and a better knowledge of what it takes to be successful.

  LaVell Edwards

  Athlete, Knowledge, Successful

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• The only thing I know that makes me feel comfortable is to know as much as I can. Not like what the shots are going to be, but knowing enough about my character that I can forget those things. And more specifically, my lines. I have to know my lines. I have to know something really well, so I can forget it when we're doing it. And there is comfort in knowing, "Okay, there's not another stone that I could have overturned."

  Adam Driver

  Character, Knowing, Comfort

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, People, Community

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.64, Fordham Univ Press

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• We can not effectively serve God without the Holy Spirit.

  Derek Prince

  Spirit, Holy, Serving God

  Derek Prince (2003). “Holy Spirit In You”, p.9, Whitaker House

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• The Tao never acts with force, yet there is nothing that it can not do.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Tao, Force

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• Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

  Lucille Ball

  Inspirational, Funny, Confidence

  "The Real Story of Lucille Ball" by Eleanor Harris, (Ch. 1), 1954.

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• Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.

  Ovid

  Love, Life, Valentines Day

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• Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat.
  There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Patience, Mind, Patient

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• You have to do it by yourself. You can not do it alone.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love, Yoga

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• "The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it."

  Eva Hart

  People, History, Silence

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