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  • Hector Hugh Munro No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.
    Hector Hugh Munro
    British Novelist, Writer (1870 - 1916)
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib No one has ever suffered from his people as I have.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Antonin Artaud No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Barry Manilow No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
    Barry Manilow
    American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Ken Keyes Jr No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some.
    Ken Keyes Jr
    American personal growth author and lecturer (1921 - 1995)
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  • Archibald Alexander No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • William Cowper No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Nicholas Boileau No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
    Nicholas Boileau
    French poet and critic (1636 - 1711)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.
    Source: The Rules of Attraction (2010) 203
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Francis Lockier No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad.
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • James A. Froude No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Calvin Coolidge No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • John Ruskin No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Annie Besant No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
    Annie Besant
    British socialist, activist and writer (1847 - 1933)
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  • W. H. Auden No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Hannah Arendt No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • B. W. Powe No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
    Source: Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Emanations, Destinies, p. 28
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Stanislaw Jerzy Lec No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
    Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
    Polish writer (1909 - 1966)
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  • Adelaide Anne Procter No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.
    Adelaide Anne Procter
    English poet and philanthropist (1825 - 1864)
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