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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.

We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Even God cannot make two times two not make four.

I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism.

Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time.

Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.