Quotes with can’t

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  • Louisa May Alcott Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrant has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Erik H. Erikson Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters - where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.
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  • Carine Roitfeld Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Don Marquis Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Allan Bloom Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • E. M. Cioran Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent - unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it - we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Eric Hoffer Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Fear's a powerful thing
    It'll turn your heart black you can trust
    It'll take your God filled soul
    Fill it with devils and dust.
    Devils & Dust (2005) Devils & Dust
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bill Dedman Federal regulations forbid delaying inspections for fracture-critical bridges like the fallen Minneapolis bridge - the kind with a lack of redundancy in design, so that a single failure in a load-bearing part can cause the entire bridge to collapse.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Betty Buckley Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • Bell Hooks Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace.
    Feminism Is for Everybody (2014)
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Bertrand Russell Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Juvenal Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Robertson Davies Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
    Animal Dreams
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Anthony Powell Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
    Anthony Powell
    English novelist (1905 - 2000)
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