Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them.


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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer
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I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
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What a man can invent, another can discover...
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Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.
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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
BARBARA DEMING
A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.
ISABEL ALLENDE
No man can discover his own talents.
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You cannot make someone love you. You can only make yourself someone who can be loved.
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You cannot make someone love you. You can only make yourself someone who can be loved.
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Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
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An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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You cannot save people. You can only love them.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine
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One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.
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One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.
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Free enterprise cannot only make us better off financially, it can make us better people.
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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.
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You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
GALILEO
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
GALILEO
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
GALILEO GALILEI
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Until a man begins to read, then He will discover himself.
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All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for imposto...
THOMAS PAINE
The Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of the ancient mythologists, accommodated to t...
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Now, if the writers of these four books [Gospels] had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi...
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With respect to the books of the New Testament, particularly such parts as tell us of the resurrecti...
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The first chapter of Matthew begins with giving a genealogy of Jesus Christ; and in the third chapte...
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It is not then the existence or the non-existence, of the persons that I trouble myself about; it is...
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In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but tha...
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That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of n...
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Be this as it may, they decided by vote which of the books out of the collection they had made, shou...
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People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in ...
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He prays dictatorially. When it is sunshine,
he prays for rain, and when it is rain, he prays f...
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As to the ancient historians, from THOMAS PAINE It is difficult beyond description to conceive that space can have no end; but it is more difficult ...
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The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying the principles of science in the structure of the universe, has...
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When also I am told that a woman, called the Virgin Mary, said, or gave out, that she was with child...
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Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe w...
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It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible...
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But the resurrection of a dead person from the grave, and his ascension through the air, is a thing ...
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