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  • Joseph Conrad There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Winston Churchill There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Barbra Streisand There is nothing more important in life than love.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Suzanne Lafollette There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.
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  • William Hazlitt There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • E. B. White There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Jean Baudrillard There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Guy Debord There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.
    Guy Debord
    French philosopher (1931 - 1994)
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  • Burgess Owens There is nothing more rewarding than winning when you're looked at as not being capable of doing so.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Agatha Christie There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Martin Luther King There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Homer There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Mark Twain There is nothing sadder than a young pessimist.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Han Suyin There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
    Han Suyin
    Chinese-European writer (ps. by Elizabeth Comber) (1916 - 2012)
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  • George Santayana There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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