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A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
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A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.
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A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.
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A race cannot be purified from without.
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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
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A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.
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A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.
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A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.
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A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
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A thing that has not been begun cannot be finished.
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A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.
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A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.
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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
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A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.
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A woman's faults, be they never so small, cast a shadow which all her virtues cannot dispel.
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A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
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Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.
On War (1832) Ch. 7, as translated by Michael Howard and Peter P
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