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  • Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.
  • The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.
  • Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
  • You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.
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  • Thomas Carlyle A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • William Jennings Bryan If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
    William Jennings Bryan
    American orator and politician (1860 - 1925)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Joseph Addison Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Andrew Carnegie People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Horace You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Marianne Moore A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
    Marianne Moore
    American poet (1887 - 1972)
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  • Albert Speer All I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no respirator, and no protection against them that we knew of. So the soldiers would have been unable to protect themselves against this gas in any way.
    Albert Speer
    German architect and Minister of Armaments during WWII (1905 - 1981)
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  • Jean Cocteau An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • André Gide Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Baba Kalyani Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Being ''contented'' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • André Gide Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Brendan Behan Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • George Macaulay Trevelyan Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
    George Macaulay Trevelyan
    British historian and academic (1876 - 1962)
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  • George Macaulay Trevelyan Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.
    George Macaulay Trevelyan
    British historian and academic (1876 - 1962)
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  • Lewis Mumford Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Aristotle He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Blaise Pascal I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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