Quotes with can’t

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  • Benjamin Graham The State can always afford to finance what its citizens can soundly produce.
    Storage and Stability Part I, Ch. III, The Problem of Conserving Surplus
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • David Lloyd George The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.
    David Lloyd George
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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  • George Herbert Allen The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.
    George Herbert Allen
    American football coach (1918 - 1990)
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  • Oscar Wilde The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Audre Lorde The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 77
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy. The study of self-actualizing people must be the basis for a more universal science of psychology
    Motivation and Personality (1954) p. 234
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • B. D. Wong The success of the storytellers - we're only as good as what we can withhold from the audience. Aspects of surprise and letting things play out for the audience - it's so much a part of their enjoyment. It's one of the great things about working in the movies and being a great storyteller.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Boomer Esiason The support of organizations including the NY Jets, Canon USA, USA Football, and Outback Steakhouse is a great example of how corporate America can make an impact in bettering the communities where employees work and live.
    Boomer Esiason
    American football player (1961 - )
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  • Joseph Brodsky The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Huey Newton The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars.
    Revolutionary Suicide (2009)
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Anatole Broyard The tension between 'yes' and 'no,' between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Bella Abzug The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
    Bella!: Ms. Abzug goes to Washington
    Bella Abzug
    American lawyer and politician (1920 - 1998)
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  • Thornton Wilder The theatre is supremely fitted to say: ''Behold! These things are.'' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: ''This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.''
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Adam Smith The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Bryan Greenberg The thing about New York is it's like London: you want to go to the boutique places. You can go to the big department stores - Barney's, Bloomingdales and all that stuff - but I like the little stores.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Brandi Chastain The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.
    Brandi Chastain
    American soccer player (1968 - )
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  • Ben Whishaw The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you're always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You're always protected.
    Ben Whishaw
    English actor (1980 - )
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