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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
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We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.
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We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love.
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We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.
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We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge.
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We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
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We can rebuild an alliance to fight ISIS, but we have to lead, and we have to give our allies what they are asking us to do. We do not have to march off to war, but we have to help our allies fight a war which we need them to win.
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We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
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We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.
― Anna Brownell Jameson
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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
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We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.
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We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
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We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
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We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
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We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford.
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We cannot erase what has been done. We can apologize for it. We can express our outrage. We can say to the American people and to the people of the world, this is not our way and we do not condone it, but we cannot change it and we cannot erase it.
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We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
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We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
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We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way.
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We could have waited for a donor to appear, but we believe in the spirit of self-development and confidence. We are not so poor that we are unable to carry out this project.
Source: On construction of the Unity Bridge, January 2005
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