Can Do Quotes - Page 31

• [George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Riding, Driving

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• A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.

  Thomas Paine

  Writing, Men, May

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.202, Rowman & Littlefield

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• We don't have to do it any better than we can - ever. Do our best for the moment, then let it go. If we have to redo it, we can do our best in another moment, later.

  Melody Beattie

  Excellence, Let It Go, Moments

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost anything which men can do or suffer. For sympathy may be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many respects as he is affected.

  Edmund Burke

  Sympathy, Men, Suffering

  Edmund Burke (1823). “A philosophical inquiry, etc”, p.54

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• It is very funny about money. The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. All animals have the same emotions and the same ways as men. Anybody who has lots of animals around knows that. But the thing no animal can do is count, and the thing no animal can know is money.

  Gertrude Stein

  Money, Animal, Men

  Gertrude Stein (1974). “How Writing Is Written”

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• I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.

  Gertrude Stein

  Family, Doubt, Shadow

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “The Geographical History of America: Or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind”, p.148, Random House

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• Every act of motherhood contains a dual intent, as the mother holds the child close and prepares it to move way from her, as she supports the child and stands it firmly on its own feet, and as she guards it against danger and sends it out across the yard, down by the stream, and across the traffic-crowded highway. Unless a mother can do both - gather her child close and turn her child out toward the world - she will fail in her purpose.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Children, Moving

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• No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.

  John Ruskin

  Love, People, Needs

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• If I am going up a ladder, and a dog begins to bite at my ankles, I can do one of two things - either turn round and kick out at the it, or simply go on up the ladder. I prefer to go up the ladder!

  Maria Montessori

  Dog, Two, Challenges

  MARIA MONTESSORI “HER LIFE AND WORK”

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• There are those of us who believe that under certain conditions the cruelest thing you can do to people you love is to force them to live. There are those of us who define living not by whether the heart beats and the lungs lift but whether the spirit is there, whether the music box plays.

  Anna Quindlen

  Believe, Heart, Love Is

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• A safety net of small white lies can be the bedrock of a successful marriage. You wouldn't believe how cheaply I can do a kitchen renovation.

  Anna Quindlen

  Marriage, Lying, Believe

  Anna Quindlen (2012). “Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life”, p.22, Random House

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• I will work on myself, since the work on myself is going to be the highest thing I can do for it all, since I understand that as man up-levels his own consciousness, he sees more creative solutions to the problems that he's confronting.

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  Ram Dass

  Work, Creativity, Men

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• How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.

  Etty Hillesum

  Destiny, Men, Shapes

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.258, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• One thing I am convinced of is that the more you do, the more you can do.

  Lauren Bacall

  Action, One Thing, Convinced

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• Censorship' is a term pertaining only to governmental action. No private action is censorship. No private individual or agency can silence a man or suppress a publication; only the government can do so. The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right not to agree, not to listen and not to finance one's own antagonists.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Agency, Silence

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.85, Penguin

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• Everything here must be done twice as no one can do it right the first time.

  Roseanne Barr

  Done, Firsts, Los Angeles

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• as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness. You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities. Nobody else in the world can do it, or ever could do it, or ever will be able to do it again.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Country, Loneliness, Law

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• Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, - a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Peace, Winter, Quiet

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2009). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.268, Broadview Press

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• We're often afraid to do anything unless we know we can do it extremely well. But we get to Carnegie Hall by practicing. I remember how freeing it was several years ago to read in an interview with Joan Baez that some of Bob Dylan's early songs weren't so wonderful. We have this image of genius springing fully grown out of Zeus' forehead.

  Marianne Williamson

  Song, Years, Genius

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• I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful things, and it's too bad to just let them lie there without doing anything with and for them.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Lying, Writing, Ordinary

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• Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn, check, channelize. They can be a "Hup two three four." They can forge a fiery army of a hundred languid men.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Army, Men, Two

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• Americans tend to believe they can do anything with or without any training or experience.

  Gladys Taber

  Believe, Training

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• I'm excited about the opportunity to get out there and show not only what I can do but, more importantly, what this team can do with me in there.

  Philip Rivers

  Sports, Team, Opportunity

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• When confronted with a demand that the universe have a cause, infidels have usually pointed out that God was not much of an explanation. This is true enough, but not really a positive argument. After mechanistic explanation became popular, infidels liked to restrict causality to the chain of causes in an eternal material universe, pointing out that no supernatural cause was then necessary. Plausible, but still rather defensive. Today's skeptic can do better. In all likelihood, the universe is uncaused. It is random. It just is.

  Taner Edis

  Religion, Demand, Causality

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• The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings of this religion are these: Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Teaching, Men, Hands

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.183, Dial Press

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