#cannot

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. ↗

— Maya Angelou

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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me? ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

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For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil. ↗

— Balthus

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Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

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