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When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Janet Watson
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Andre Gide
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I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
Charles Baudelaire
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Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization
George Shaw
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
William Faulkner
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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
Akira Kurosawa
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Spending time with Jim on a stage is an incredibly weird experience! I found myself unable to act seriously! Hard to shoot with the master of comedy!
Jennifer Tilly
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Failure, in my book, is someone who lives in the safety of their laptop taking shots at those who actually achieved what they have been unable to do.
Eli Roth
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When asked by "People" magazine, Nov. 11, 1996 issue, how the disaster of Heaven`s Gate (1980) affected his life: "It was really a great trauma, as everyone knows. Since then, I`ve been unable to make any movie that I`ve wanted to make. I`ve been making t...
Michael Cimino
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Y`know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.
Amy Carpenter
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Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best o...
Andrea Dworkin
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Without significant reform, the Social Security Administration will be legally and financially unable to pay full promised benefits within a generation.
Ron Lewis
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What we found out with Katrina is that the country is still unable to deal with disaster, God forbid this happens in San Francisco.
Andrew Leventis
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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We have to learn how to win, how to put teams away, and tonight we let them hang around and we were unable to turn the tide once they got it going.
Brian Lee
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We had been unable to persuade any of the natives of Wellington Valley to accompany us as guides, on our leaving that settlement.
Alan Grieve
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We don`t know if there was a car waiting for them, ... The dogs picked up their scent, both by footprints and track, but we have been unable to locate them.
Aubree Johnson
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We don`t have open and honest discussions about the sexuality in our communities, and what we get out of that is people being unable to claim the truth of their lives.
Phil Wilson
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Unfortunately, 9/11 crystallized some misconceptions that made some people unable to realize that really healthy dissent is in truth more supportive of those poor soldiers being sent to get slaughtered than this blind allegiance to a certain political reg...
Rodney Crowell
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Two blocks from there when we were looking for the probationer, a male adult reported that he was attacked and robbed by physical force, ... He gave a vague description of the suspect, but we were unable to find the individual.
Art Williams
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Too many employers have said that they are unable to find skilled workers.
Dennis Hastert
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They were unable to stand up and say: `Here`s our policy. It`s `Unite the world against terrorism.``
Chris Matthews
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These are people who are unable to work because of mental or physical problems or drug or alcohol addiction.
Linda Brown
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There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting
Barb Fleisner
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There are no real business assets. All of his equipment was repossessed. It made him unable to do work. He had a couple of employees leave. They could see that the business was not doing well.
David Larsen
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The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.
Franz Schubert
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sought to break [him] by zapping him with a cattle prod as a `warning.` The electrical voltage of a cattle prod is intended for a large animal, not for a human being. The petitioner collapsed on the floor, lost control of his bladder, was unable to speak ...
Andy Landers
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Normally, someone would be referred to a supervisor if they asked to speak to one. It is escalated if that representative is unable to help.
Ashwin Navin
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Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.
Marilyn French
