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Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.

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

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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

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

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

We cannot know the mystery of the future.

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Jimmy CarterJust Peace: A Message of Hope

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.