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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

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.

The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.

I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country.

I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.

The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.

I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.

When I shall again write to you, or where I shall be tomorrow, I cannot tell.

What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

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.

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia.

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.

In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand.

If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.