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The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized.

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

One moment cannot be the most important.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

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

The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster.

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.

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.

All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.

A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.

I'm very particular about the pizza that I eat. Godfather's is still a premium-quality product, and I cannot always find that. It's got to be as good as Godfather's or I won't eat it.

In America, they are paranoid about ruining the reputations of people once they are dead and cannot answer back. They have this fascination which to me seems cruel and morbid. I do not want any part of it.

We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.