“ I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves. ”
- Brendan Behan- Copy
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“ People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals — that is, goals that do not inspire them. ”
- Anthony Robbins- Copy
- 107
“ To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern. ”
- Nigel Lawson- Copy
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“ I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise. ”
- Hayao Miyazaki- Copy
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“ I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything. ”
- George Herbert Palmer- Copy
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“ I believe in instinct, not in reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong. ”
- A. C. Benson- Copy
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“ Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. ”
- James C. Maxwell- Copy
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“ Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral. ”
- Richard Nixon- Copy
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“ I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell. ”
- Jessye Norman- Copy
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“ He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. ”
- Abigail Adams- Copy
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“ Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily. ”
- Gary North- Copy
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“ Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it. ”
- Reinhold Niebuhr- Copy
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“ Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. ”
- Henry Commager- Copy
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“ For the first time, Congress will take a detailed look at why the primary guardians of Enron's shareholders were unable to protect them. ”
- Susan Collins- Copy
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“ Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon. ”
- Henry Louis Mencken- Copy
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“ If the allegations brought forward by the whistleblowers are correct, they represent both a security threat and a waste of taxpayer dollars. It would be ironic, to say the least, if DHS were unable to secure its own headquarters. ”
- Byron Dorgan- Copy
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“ Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
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“ Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. ”
- Paulo Freire- Copy
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“ Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ I regret to say that we of the F.B.I. are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. ”
- J. Edgar Hoover- Copy
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