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  • Samuel Johnson There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Andrew Jackson There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Lord Chesterfield There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Mark Caine There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.
    Mark Caine
    American writer
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  • Eugène Ionesco There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to ''realize'' myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have ''succeeded,'' this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is ''realizable.'' Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.
    Eugène Ionesco
    Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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  • Ansel Adams There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Thomas Carlyle There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Henry David Thoreau There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Charles Sanders Pierce There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
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  • Bob Dylan There is one thing I know though I'm younger than you
    Even Jesus would not forgive what you do
    The Freewheelin Bob Dylan (1963)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Victor Hugo There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Oscar Wilde There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Douglas Jerrold There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Anatole Broyard There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Oscar Wilde There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Emmeline Pankhurst There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.
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  • Robert Half There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
    Robert Half
    American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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  • Erica Jong There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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