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“You can present people with ideas they may come to believe in, and as a result of them they will act, if they have the opportunities. Presenting people with opportunities is part of what politics is about.”
Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations
“You can present the material, but you can't make me care.”
“You can pretend anything and master it.”
“You can pretend everything's fine, but if there's an unhappiness or you're not having sex or you're not communicating or you're made to feel third best in the house and you don't address it and you just try to put on a nice face and a smile, that kind of aggression and anger is going to come out in some sinister way.”
“You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.”
Source: Wide Sargasso Sea
“You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.”
“You can pretend to rebel against A.I., but unfortunately, you already depend on it to stay alive. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Better to foster and guide emerging intelligence than to assume any illusion of a “prodigal son” play. That’s not how any of this works. - Tyler”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“You can pretend we are one or we are
alone but the religions based on each
are doors someone drew on a wall
in the hope they could make a getaway
before whoever's wall it was got home
There's always a gap in the photostream
or a certain dubiousness to the signature
A bird in the air is worth more to itself
than all the ones in the grip of something”
Source: If This Is Paradise Why Are We Still Driving
“You can pretty much do it with anything. You can tell your life story with all the jeans you've worn, or every pair of shoes you've owned.”
“You can pretty much look at any subject and just by your basic true and raw perspective of it, you will know how you feel about it and how that relates to you, and also what it could tell you about yourself.”
“You can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available.”
“You can prevent your opponent from defeating you through defense, but you cannot defeat him without taking the offensive.”
“You can probably ask my husband, and he might tell you differently, but I feel very much like I'm kind of cautious in my real life.”
“You can proceed with your journey to visit every part of the world but I’ll forever be conquering more space than you are, I’m going to stand still in one spot and turn into a ring.
Poem - Sinner.
- December 11, 2022.”
Source: EvolutionR
“You can produce as many products as you want in life if you just apply the principle of time conversion.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“You can profit by disappointment - if it is turned into inspirational dissatisfaction with a positive mental attitude.”
“You can prolong the physical lifespan and you call it longevity. You can sustain the Life of the Soul of Beings and this is called immortality. Herein lies the big difference between longevity and immortality.”
Source: Higher Science of Longevity
“You can promote your books from the comfort of your couch by taking advantage of Goodreads.”
“You can prophecy without going to the bible school. If you acknowledge Jesus, you receive the gift of prophecy and you can prophecy. The holy spirit is always there for you.”
Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
“You can propose on our honeymoon
[Miss Piggy to Kermit the Frog]”
“You can prosper, no matter what the economy is doing.”
“You can protest, you can protest peacefully, but keep things civil.”
“You can prove almost anything with the evidence of a small enough segment of time. How often, in any search for truth, the answer of the minute is positive, the answer of the hour qualified, the answers of the year contradictory!”
Source: Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year
“You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.”
“You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason — if you pick the proper postulates. We have ours and Cutie has his.”
Source: I, Robot
“You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.”
Source: The Robot Collection: The Robot Novels
“You can provide the conditions for the motivation of others and the leadership to help them find a way but they must have the intrinsic spark, the desire, to move, to overcome the inertia of the status quo and change things.”
“You can publish a poem you think is a very important poem, and you don't hear a word from anyone. [...] You can publish a book of poetry by dropping it off a cliff and waiting to hear an echo. Quite often, you'll never hear a thing. So doing that, using older work, puts it in a context, and that sort of forces the reader to realize what its importance is-if it has any. Everything needs a context. You're not going to recognize a poet unless you have a context.”
“You can pull people to your own winter and freeze them up or you can take your sun to people’s own winter and warm them up! It is up to you to bring hell or heaven to people’s life!”
“You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.”
“You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain; unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“You can purify your existence by feeling deep within yourself a beautiful rose or lotus, or any other flower that you like. A flower is all purity. Try to identify yourself with the consciousness of the flower or with the purity of the flower. Today it is imagination, but if you continue imagining for five days, or ten days, or a month or two, then you are bound to see and feel the flower within you. First you may feel it, then you are bound to see the existence of the flower, and then automatically the fragrance and the purity of the flower will enter into you to purify you.”
Source: The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace
“You can purposefully use your feelings to transmit an even more powerful frequency, by adding feeling to what you are wanting.”
Source: The Secret
“You can pursue your dreams by grace.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“You can push your local communities to adopt more sustainable sources of energy and environmentally-friendly practices.”
“You can put a cat in an oven, but that don't make it a biscuit.”
“You can put a dog in a scene and everyone's going to be better, I guarantee it. And if they're not better, just shoot the dog.”
“You can put a gardener behind the wheel, but you can't keep her eyes off the landscape.”
“You can put a murderer in a suit, and hes still a murderer.”
“You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self.”
Source: Decoded (Enhanced Edition)
“You can put a person in jail for 5 years, for 10 years, or 20 years, for the same crime. We're deciding on 10 years to 20 years, when 5 years would be enough. Okay. The deterrent value, the additional amount of leverage that you get over a criminal to keep them from breaking the law in the first place, associated with making the sentences longer, is de minimous; it's essentially nothing.”
“You can put a tiara on the world's most adorable pig and she still isn't going to blend in with the thoroughbreds galloping past.”
Source: I'm Your Biggest Fan: Awkward Encounters and Assorted Misadventures in Celebrity Journalism
“You can put an end to my life, but you can't wipe out my light.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“You can put anything in here!”
“You can put anything into words, except your own life.”
Source: I'm Not Stiller
“You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.”
Source: The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1998: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Prize : Presented to Renzo Piano
“You can put in a curl or put on a lip color or mascara, but the important thing is that the health of your skin and hair is shining through.”
“You can put it another way, of course; you always can.”
“You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.”
“You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.”