#cannot

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. ↗

— Abraham Flexner

#billions #borrow #borrowed #both #cannot

Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. ↗

— Abraham Flexner

#cannot #choice #civilization #enough #make

Who has not served cannot command. ↗

— John Florio

#command #served #who

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#admit #amidst #away #cannot #censorship

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#cannot #civilization #dramatic #emotional #fact

To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#answered #ask #cannot #come #creative

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#cannot #eyes #let us #reality #see

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done. ↗

— James Fenton

#done #fine #fine thing #forgery #generous

The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#cannot #comparisons #examine #existence #formed

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal. ↗

— Marilyn Ferguson

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