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John Steinbeck quote: "People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they..."
People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it. John Steinbeck
E. E. Cummings quote: "Time cannot children, poets, lovers tell-measure imagine,..."
Time cannot children, poets, lovers tell-measure imagine, mystery, a kiss-not though mankind would rather know than feel E. E. Cummings
Samuel Johnson quote: "Nature has given woman so much power that the law cannot..."
Nature has given woman so much power that the law cannot afford to give her more. Samuel Johnson
As the geometer intently seeksto square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight. Dante Alighieri
William Shakespeare quote: "That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his..."
That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman. William Shakespeare
Tragedy is the common lot of man. 'So many people have lost children' I remind myself. pp 178-179This tragedy is such an inextricable part of my story that it cannot be left out of an honest record. Suffering - no matter how multiplied - is always individual. p 179 Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Damn everything but the circus!. . .The average 'painter' 'sculptor' 'poet' 'composer' 'playwright' is a person who cannot leap through a hoop from the back of a galloping horse, make people laugh with a clown's mouth, orchestrate twenty lions. E. E. Cummings
The earth is not a lair, neither is it a prison. The earth is a Paradise, the only one we'll ever know. We will realize it the moment we open our eyes. We don't have to make it a Paradise-it is one. We have only to make ourselves fit to inhabit it. The man with the gun, the man with murder in his heart, cannot possibly recognize Paradise even when he is shown it. Henry Miller
William Penn quote: "No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself."
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself. William Penn
He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in heart. He with thee does bear a part. These are certain signs to know. Faithful friend from flattering foe. William Shakespeare
George Orwell quote: "Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until..."
Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious. George Orwell
...Give your approval to all you cannot understand. Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed... Wendell Berry
One farmer says to me, 'You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;' and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle. Henry David Thoreau
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the..."
Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain. Elizabeth Bowen
So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused. Herman Hesse

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