#cannot

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet. ↗

— Ernest Bramah

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

— Georges Braque

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

— Bertolt Brecht

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You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy and a free confederacy side by side upon this continent. ↗

— John Brough

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'Twas drink made me fall in love, And love made me run into debt, And though I have struggled and struggled and strove, I cannot get out of them yet. ↗

— Alexander Brome

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A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early. ↗

— Rupert Brooke

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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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There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures. ↗

— Thomas Browne

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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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Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture. ↗

— Charlotte Bunch

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