#cannot

A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

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The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#artist #both #cannot #copy #ends

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#artist #cannot #fail #success

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made. ↗

— John Berryman

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History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture. ↗

— Preet Bharara

#challenges #corporate #culture #ensure #history

The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness. ↗

— Edwin Booth

#best #books #cannot #convey #darkness

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. ↗

— Georges Braque

#cannot #explain #only #thing #valuable

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#cannot #common #factions #into #long

In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith. ↗

— James L. Buckley

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The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture. ↗

— Robert McAfee Brown

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