Quotes with most-used

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  • Caitlin Doughty Not only is natural burial by far the most ecologically sound way to perish, it doubles down on the fear of fragmentation and loss of control. Making the choice to be naturally buried says, 'Not only am I aware that I'm a helpless, fragmented mass of organic matter, I celebrate it. Vive la decay!'
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Antisthenes Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.
    Antisthenes
    Greek philosopher (445 - 365)
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  • Bruce Forsyth Not working is bad for you. It is my drug, it gives me a high; most performers will tell you that. And there is nothing like the high that an audience gives you.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Samuel Beckett Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Bill Ayers Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.
    Bill Ayers
    American elementary education theorist (1944 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Alice S. Rossi Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well-paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it.
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  • Edgar W. Howe Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville 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.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Rebecca West Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Peggy Noonan Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.
    Peggy Noonan
    American Author, Presidential Speechwriter (1950 - )
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  • Blair Underwood Now it's a fully realized production but for the fact that we're holding our scripts in our hand and some of us used them, and some of us didn't and you have to by union rules hold the script. You don't have to use them but you gotta hold them.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Beverly Jones Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.
    Beverly Jones
     
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  • Barney Frank Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bill Gross Obama/Romney, Romney/Obama - the most important election of our lifetime? Fact is they're all the same - bought and paid for with the same money. Ours is a country of the SuperPAC, by the SuperPAC, and for the SuperPAC.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Bede Griffiths Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
    Bede Griffiths
    British-born priest and Benedictine monk (1906 - 1993)
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