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I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.

While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.

The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain.

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another.

Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism.

Why we cannot build a system like El Al to be proactive. Why do we have only to react? The shoe bomber - reaction? Take off your shoes. The Nigerian - the body scanner is a result of the Nigerian guy.

He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

For me, Fellini was like a watermelon. It is there. A watermelon cannot die.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

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

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?

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.