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The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.

Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

Who has not served cannot command.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.

The greatest fight is when you are fighting in the smoke and cannot see with your eyes.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

You cannot play with fire.

Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

Today, because of President Obama's courage, kids can stay on their parent's plan until they are 26. Insurers cannot kick you off your policy because you have hit your limit. They will not be able to deny you because you have a pre-existing condition.

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!"

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.

We cannot accomplish all that we need to do without working together.

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.