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Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
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Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.
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Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing troubles less, as I never think about them.
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Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.
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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
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Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.
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Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
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Nowadays, I could not care less about making other people like me. I'm a good person, I don't need to do that anymore.
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Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
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Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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On golden chairs
Sitting at ease, you paid for the songs which we chanted
To those less lucky. You paid us for drying their tears
And for comforting all those whom you had wounded.Poems, 1913-1956 Song of the cut-price poets [Lied der preiswerten -
On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism.
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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
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One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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