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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.

My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.

Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.

If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That, to them, means they can walk.

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.

My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.

You cannot mistake Bush's clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportunity that makes his followers feel like they aren't just ticking their days down but are part of something larger than themselves.

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

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

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.

Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.

One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.

After you win all these belts, you cannot fight all these mandatory guys.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.