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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
Franz Grillparzer

Knowledge, Small, Silent

It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?
Alan Cumming

Life, Work, Gay

I care about Bond and what happens to him. You cannot be connected with a character for this long and not have an interest. All the Bond films had their good points.
Sean Connery

Good, Character, Care

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
Edward Young

It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.
Miriam Makeba

Life, Music, Long

I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter.
Donald Cargill

Live, Help, May

And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only.
Donald Cargill

Live, Long, Another

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.
J. P. Morgan

Him, Tell, Lawyer

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
Marian Anderson

Long, Person, Him

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.
John Milton

Him, Though, Left

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.
David Cronenberg

Mind, Human, Reality

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
Man Ray

Dreams, Drive, Paint

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.
Hugh Laurie

History, Single, May

You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them.
Mehmet Oz

Health, Money, Care

You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
Paul Getty

Bring, Prosperity, Thrift

You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.
Paul Getty

Hatred, Class, Further

You cannot add more minutes to the day, but you can utilize each one to the fullest.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Fullest, Minutes, Add

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
Charles de Secondat

Men, Power, Gratitude

Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.
Hakeem Olajuwon

Best, Home, Childhood

A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.
Laura Linney

Life, Someone, Understand

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.
Mortimer Adler

Yourself, Book, Give

The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Today, Black, Die

We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
Edward R. Murrow

Good, Bad, Practice

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.
Alan Dershowitz

Leadership, State, Interested

A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.
Henri Poincare

Small, Chance, Fail

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
Jack London

Nature, Recoil, Violate

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.
Pearl Bailey

Yourself, Else, Until

You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.
Jesse Jackson

Someone, May, Else

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.
Jesse Jackson

God, Men, Children

The argument for getting our own house in order is not an argument for turning our back on the world. We cannot and should not do that.
Chris Christie

Getting, Order, House

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