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• You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
  

  ― A. A. Milne
  English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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• You can't stop technology or science, and it is snowballing quicker than ever. Something's got to come to a head. How? Who knows? But it will.

  ― Billy Burke
  American actor
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• You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

  ― Jon Kabat Zinn
   
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• You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

  ― Clarence Day
  American author and cartoonist (1874 - 1935)
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• You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

  ― C. Everett Koop
  American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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• You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
  

  ― Jack Kerouac
  American novelist and poet (1922 - 1969)
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• You can't test courage cautiously.

  ― Annie Dillard
  American author (1945 - )
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• You can't think and hit the ball at the same time.

  ― Yogi Berra
  American baseball player (1925 - 2015)
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• You can't think rationally on an empty stomach, and a whole lot of people can't do it on a full stomach either.

  ― Lord John Reith
  British BBC director (1899 - 1971)
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• You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.

  ― Bob Geldof
  Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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• You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

  ― W. C. Fields
  American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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• You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
  

  ― Ray Bradbury
  American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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• You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.
  

  ― Bruce Willis
  American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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• You can't win for losing. Either you fulfill their stereotype of being a radical 60's person or you've sold out. In fact, of course, millions of people who were active in the 60's are doing work on issues that try to reflect their values.

  ― Bernardine Dohrn
  American law professor and activist
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• You can't worry about the mistakes, because you're going to make a lot of them. You've got to be thinking about your next move.

  ― Ben Horowitz
  American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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• You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.

  ― Katherine Anne Porter
  American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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• You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.

  ― Philip Roth
  American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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• You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

  Source: On Writing (2002) 275

  ― Stephen King
  American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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• You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
  

  ― Wayne Dyer
  American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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• You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

  ― J. Richard Clarke
   
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• six-year-old
• implications
• intelligence
• stereotype
• understand
• textbooks

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