Quotes 501 till 520 of 1211.
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It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
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Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
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Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
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Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.
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Just as those who do not love Plato more than truth cannot pass beyond the threshold of Academe, so those who do not love beauty more than truth never know the inmost shrine of art.
The Decay of Lying (1889) -
Kings govern by means of popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
Rede House of Commons (31 oktober 1776) -
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.
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Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.
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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
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Learning disabilities cannot be cured, but they can be treated successfully and children with LD can go on to live happy, successful lives.
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Let me announce, with all the strength at my command, that I am not a terrorist and I never was, expect perhaps in the beginning of my revolutionary career. And I am convinced that we cannot gain anything through those methods.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
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Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.
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Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
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Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death.
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