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  • Al Stewart Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it.
    Al Stewart
    Scottish singer-songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Woodrow Wilson Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • W. Channing Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
    W. Channing
     
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  • Brooks Atkinson Nothing wholly admirable ever happens in this country except the migration of birds.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Samuel Johnson Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Garrison Keillor Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
    Garrison Keillor
    American humoristic writer (1942 - )
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  • Ben Folds Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? ''And here is my good big centipede!'' If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life... is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Anne Rice Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Louis Aragon Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.
    Louis Aragon
    French poet (1897 - 1982)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bill Watterson Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bram Stoker One and all we felt that the holy calm that lay like sunshine over the wasted face and form was only an earthly token and symbol of the calm that was to reign for ever.
    Source: Dracula (1897) Dr. Seward of Lucy Westenra
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Josh Billings One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Abraham Pais One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
    Source: To Save A Life : Stories of Holocaust Rescue (2000)
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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