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  • Douglas Adams We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Florence Scovel Shinn We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
    Florence Scovel Shinn
    American artist, writer
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  • Voltaire We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • David Sarnoff We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
    David Sarnoff
    American Entrepreneur (1891 - 1971)
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  • Charles Swindoll We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
    Charles Swindoll
    American Pastor, writer
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  • Ben Nelson We cannot erase what has been done. We can apologize for it. We can express our outrage. We can say to the American people and to the people of the world, this is not our way and we do not condone it, but we cannot change it and we cannot erase it.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • Barbara Jordan We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Richard Nixon We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Max Lerner We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Carl Lewis We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Joseph Fort Newton We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty - that is the test of living.
    Joseph Fort Newton
    American Baptist minister (1876 - 1950)
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  • V.S. Naipaul We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
    A Way in the World (2012) 8
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • John F. Kennedy We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Giordano Bruno We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.
    Giordano Bruno
    Italian philosopher and priest (1548 - 1600)
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  • Bill Nelson We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack.
    Bill Nelson
    American attorney and politician (1942 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Martha Grimes We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
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  • Carmen Kass We feel free. We're independent. People can be openly proud of being Estonian. I have a lot of belief in Estonia.
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  • Brit Hume We get a ton of email; everybody does now. It gives us a kind of a pulse that you can feel.We hear people saying, thank you for being fair, for being balanced.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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