Cannot Quotes (page 140)

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• experience
• inductive
• nor

licited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any Sun Tzu

• people
• humanity
• love

This way of settling differences is not just. This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. Martin Luther King jr.

• mindfulness
• book
• learning

If you are reading in order to become a better reader, you cannot read just any book or article. You will not improve as a reader if all you read are books that are well within your capacity. You must tackle books that are beyond you, or, as we have said, books that are over your head. Only books of that sort will make you stretch your mind. And unless you stretch, you will not learn. Mortimer Adler

• look
• bear
• nest

I cannot bear that chirpy Bobby Kennedy, always building his beaver's nest with a few more facts. He needs to look into the abyss. Norman Mailer

• thinking you
• thinking
• things

You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt

• self
• good
• tired

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations...To project ourselves into a wicked character, we have only to stop doing something, and something that we are already tired of doing; to project ourselves into a good one we have to do what we cannot and become what we are not. C. S. Lewis

• soul
• narcotic
• souls

Narcotics cannot still the ToothThat nibbles at the soul -- Emily Dickinson

• ultimate
• words
• images

Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. Joseph Campbell

• lost
• photographing
• lost you

Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem. Jeanette Winterson

• she
• wonderful
• believe

And he wonders if maybe Nina is right; if a superhero is nothing but an ordinary person who believes that she cannot fail. Jodi Picoult

• short
• running
• thinking

I cannot see why she lengthens her list nor thinks we are short of weapons with which to run her through. Martin Luther

• god
• universe
• we cannot

We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us. Simone Weil

• real
• manly
• being a man

...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man. Anthony Burgess

• sea
• great
• excellence

Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with its thousand roads, to that great uncertainty external to everything. He is a prisoner in the midst of what is the freest, the openest of routes: bound fast at the infinite crossroads. He is the Passenger par excellence: that is, the prisoner of the passage. And the land he will come to is unknown—as is, once he disembarks, the land from which he comes. He has his... Michel Foucault

• sacrifice
• music
• good

She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but has she got feeling? I am afraid not. In fact, she is like most artists; she is all style, without any sincerity. She would not sacrifice herself for others. She thinks merely of music, and everybody knows that arts are selfish. Still, it must be admitted that she has some beautiful notes in her voice. What a pity it is that they do not mean anything, or do any practical good. Oscar Wilde