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Can Do Quotes - Page 8

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

John Ruskin (1800). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture: Also, Lectures on Architecture and Painting; The Study of Architecture; Sesame and Lilies; Unto this Last; The Queen of the Air; The Storm-cloud of the Nineteenth Century”

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.52, University of Chicago Press

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945”

The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.164, Knopf Books for Young Readers