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In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
Barack Obama

Society, Cannot, Again

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
Shunryu Suzuki

Truth, True, Everything

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
Voltaire

Cannot, Speak, Oblige

We cannot wish for that we know not.
Voltaire

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, God, Children

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Dolly Parton

Cannot, Wind, Direct

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
William James

Mind, Cannot, Start

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.
Orison Swett Marden

Time, May, Cannot

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
Herman Melville

Men, Live, Cannot

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.
Jan Schakowsky

Help, Control, Cannot

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Together, Cannot, Problems

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Blaise Pascal

Love, Truth, Cannot

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.
Bernard Meltzer

Love, Giving, May

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
Calvin Coolidge

Everything, Cannot, Once

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
Marilyn Ferguson

Change, Emotional, Cannot

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
George W. Bush

Ignore, America, Cannot

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wisdom, Give, Cannot

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Cannot, Either, Virtue

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
Saint Augustine

Cannot, Hear, Angel

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
Samuel Johnson

Cannot, Almost, Imitation

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Alan Watts

Pain, Cannot, Sensitive

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.
Paul Kagame

Power, Future, Cannot

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
Blaise Pascal

Everything, Cannot, Since

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
Albert Schweitzer

Cannot, Everyone, Ourselves

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
Edward R. Murrow

Home, Freedom, Cannot

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
E. M. Forster

Love, Emotional, Cannot

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Cannot, Forgive, Often

We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Cannot, Often, Annoy

We cannot learn men from books.
Benjamin Disraeli

Men, Cannot, Learn

Unless we remember we cannot understand.
E. M. Forster

Remember, Understand, Cannot

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