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People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.
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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
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People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.
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Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
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Philosophers get paid for posing interesting questions; scientists for answering them. Thus, one cannot live without the other...
Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems (2007) -
Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.
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Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
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Police officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional offices should not be treated any differently. There cannot be one set of rules for elected officials and another set of rules for everyone else.
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Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.
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Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
Hoover Off the Record (1934) door Theodore G. Joslin -
Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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