#cannot

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#commitment #controlled #derive #economy #genuinely

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#alone #badly #be true #belongs #cannot

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#cannot #childhood #even #infancy #like

He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#stand #strides #walk #who

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving. ↗

— Xun Zi

#cannot #human #human nature #nature #people

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#cannot #fit #life #situations #those

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity. ↗

— Emile Zola

#i #overwhelm #quality #quantity #will

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#cannot #i #perfection #pursuit

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#bodies #cannot #created #express #feeding

You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one's friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

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