Quotes 3041 till 3060 of 6249.
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Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
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Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
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Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?
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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
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Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
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Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
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Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity -
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Neither creator nor critic can make himself universal by barely taking thought about it. He is what he lives. The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts Into his work. The measure of the critic is the amount of life he finds there.
The Roving Critic (1923) -
Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.
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Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.
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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
The Sociological Imagination -
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye
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Networks decide who will have a chance to do shows, but it is the viewers who make the final decision of who stays and who goes. I am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay.
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Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again.
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Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.
(2010)
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