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There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
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There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.
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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
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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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There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
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There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
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There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
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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.
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
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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.
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There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me - I always feel that they have not said enough.
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There is one plot point in one of the 'D'Arnath' books that I don't think I handled as well as I could have. Am I going to tell you which one? No way!
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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There is only one time that is important - NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.
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There is only one way in the world to be distinguished Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.
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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
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There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great gifts... the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element.
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.
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