Quotes 201 till 220 of 1211.
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But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.
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Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
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Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism.
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Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it - that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.
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Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man -his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life. What would have happened if Paul had allowed himself to be talked out of his journey to Damascus?
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
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Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.
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Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.
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Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.
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Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
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Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
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Conflict cannot survive without your participation.
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Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
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Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
Robert Baden-Powell
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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
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Culture is the only thing that we cannot deliberately aim at.
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
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Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!
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Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.
V.N. 23 sept 2009
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