#cannot

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#cannot #deeply #enough #enough people #familiar

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist. ↗

— Will Durant

#cannot #moralist #statesman

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#between #cannot #forward #gap #go

Unemployment in America today is too high. And part of the reason, unfortunately, is that many companies cannot fill the high-skilled jobs increasingly at risk of going overseas. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#cannot #companies #fill #going #high

We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#cannot #care #care costs #city #continue

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#breathe #cannot #eat #exist #forever

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it. ↗

— Mary Baker Eddy

#born #cannot #exist #happiness #love

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#destroying #help #poor #rich #you

And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#doing #help #men #permanently #should

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. ↗