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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Thomas Jefferson

God, Sleep, Justice

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
Albert Einstein

God, Human, Reflection

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

Beautiful, Heart, Seen

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Albert Einstein

Government, Respect, Nothing

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
Dalai Lama

Help, Others, Harm

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, True, Important

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
Dalai Lama

Help, Daily, Find

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Emotional, Win, Sense

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Confucius

Action, Goals, Obvious

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Henry Ward Beecher

Forget, Saying, Two

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
Albert Einstein

Human, Humanity, Since

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh

Means, Within, Voice

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Albert Einstein

Human, Find, Action

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein

War, Prepare, Prevent

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln

Today, Tomorrow, Escape

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
Dalai Lama

Religion, Live, Human

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy

Society, Help, Rich

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas Fuller

Others, Forgive, Himself

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams

May, Whatever, State

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace, Through, Violence

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde

Good, Friends, Choice

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou

History, Courage, Pain

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou

Courage, True, Honest

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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
James M. Barrie

Sunshine, Others, Keep

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

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Maya Angelou

Travel, Laugh, May

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Andre Breton

Life, Heart, Name

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo

Music, Impossible, Said

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
Helen Keller

Saying, Done, Themselves

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