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In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere. ↗

— Origen

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We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#cannot #controlling #else #evident #exercising

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right? ↗

— George Orwell

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Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject. ↗

— John Henry Patterson

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One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#another #cannot #convenient #geometry #more

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#cannot #compare #dominion #emperors #even

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? ↗

— Anais Nin

#friendship #i #love #overlook #real

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#cannot #enough #heard #learn #our

Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time. ↗

— Grover Norquist

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