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The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters. 
If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. 
If we cannot agree, then at least we ought to move on. 
We cannot learn men from books. 
We cannot wish for that we know not. 
Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... 
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. 
We cannot kill or capture our way out of an industrial-strength insurgency. 
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy. 
For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future. 
We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. 
We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves. 
What will happen if we go to 0 day?
The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... 
We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot l... 
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start. 
We always live in the tommorow,which never comes and which cannot come; it is impossible. That which... 
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we... 
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. 
We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency. 
We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens. 
How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ... 
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We ... 
Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be... 
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. 
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. 
Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... 
Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the stre... 
We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving. 
Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die 
We cannot both preach and administer financial matters. 
We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy. 
The reconnection of society, economy and ethics is a project we cannot postpone. 
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. 
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Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! 
We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law. 
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot. 
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot 
We cannot have four more years apologizing to our enemies and abandoning our friends. 
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. 
Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane. 
Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward. 
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... 
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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 c... 
We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. 
In the beginning the Universe was created.
We cannot erase what has been done. We can apologize for it. We can express our outrage. We can say ... 
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. 
When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises. 
We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them. 
We can learn something from Marxist thinking, but we cannot follow Marxist methods. 
We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians. 
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
Because time is a drop in the ocean, and you cannot measure off one drop against another to see whic... 
Hell is in the here and now. So is heaven. Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven, as the... 
The words that come out of our mouths do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, an... 