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• We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.

  Edward Said

  Fighting, Rights, Criticism

  Edward W. Said (2007). “The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After”, p.233, Vintage

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• We can not lead an organization, we can run an organization. We can only lead people.

  Simon Sinek

  Running, Organization, People

  Twitter post from Feb 17, 2014

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• You cannot control faeries. Can. Not. They aren't logical or rational. They don't obey the same laws (physical, social, emotional, traffic - you name it) that we do.

  Kiersten White

  Emotional, Law, Names

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• One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Destiny, Giving, Importance

  "The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Emotions".

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• Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Memories, Freedom, War

  "Message to the Booksellers of America" (1942)

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• You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.

  Joyce Meyer

  Thinking, Live Your Life

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• I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Letting Go

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• Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.

  Evo Morales

  Mother, Needs, World

  "Cochabamba: Mining protests overshadow climate summit" by Claudia Lopez Pardo, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2010.

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• Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less.

  Sharon Olds

  Love You, Exercise, People

  "Advice to Young Poets: Sharon Olds in Conversation". Interview with Michael Laskey, www.poets.org. May 12, 2010.

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• We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

  Ronald Reagan

  Play, World, Politics

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.426, Simon and Schuster

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• Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Mean, Bears

  Ezra Pound (1968). “Literary Essays of Ezra Pound”, p.44, New Directions Publishing

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• One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

  Novalis

  Doe, Want, Language

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• I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.

  Thomas Mann

  Men, Mouths, Safe

  Thomas Mann (1969). “The Magic Mountain”, Vintage

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• I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality.

  Jermaine Jackson

  Islamic, Believe, Reality

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• Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Tools, Wonderful

  "Sunday Profile: Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Dan Harris, abcnews.go.com. February 15, 2009.

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• The doubters said, "Man can not fly," The doers said, "Maybe, but we'll try," And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Morning, Men

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• Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Men, May, Bears

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ellen Carol DuBois (1992). “The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches”, Northeastern Univ Pr

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• I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

  Elbert Hubbard (1916). “The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard”

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• If a problem can be solved it will be. If it can not be solved there is no use worrying about it.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Worry, Use

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• You cannot die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Giving Up, Father, Grief

  "A Stroke of Midnight". Book by Laurell K. Hamilton, 2005.

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• The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Peace, Government

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• If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.

  Bruce Lee

  Artist, Martial Arts, Efficiency

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• If we can not love the person whom we see, how can we love God whom we can not see?

  Mother Teresa

  God Love, Persons, Ifs

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• You can not have significance in this life if it is all about you. You get your significance, you find your joy in life through service and sacrifice - it's pure and simple.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Sacrifice, Simple, Joy

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