2,170 Quotes About Cannot


  • Author John Barton
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    We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future.

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  • Author John Barton
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    I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on.

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  • Author John Berger
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    Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy's place. If one cannot do this, it is impossible to foresee, to take by surprise, to outflank. Misinterpreting an enemy can lead to defeat. This is how empires fall.

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  • Author John Bright
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    We can fix the duties in our own tariff and on our imports, but we cannot fix the duties in the tariffs of foreign countries and on their imports.

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  • Author John Burnside
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    I realised I'd spent a lot of time in my poetry trying to find a way of talking about that whereof we cannot speak.

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  • Author John Burroughs
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    In sorrow he learned this truth: Though one may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth

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  • Author John Desmond Bernal
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    It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future.

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