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  • Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
  • One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
  • There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
  • One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.
  • Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?
  • By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.
  • TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.
  • A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.
  • Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.
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  • Jerome K. Jerome I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • O. S. Hawkins Real Christianity is lovely. There is a quality about a Spirit-filled, radiant Christian that draws and attracts others and causes them to ''enjoy favor with all the people.'' The truth is that the gospel is not nearly as offensive as some of its proponents!
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  • Carl Sagan Some racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable.
    Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 467
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Benjamin Franklin A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Ben Hecht A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Benjamin Franklin A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bill Bailey Ah, lovely: the ripple, the ripple there. That's nearly the Zen clap of acceptance there, wasn't it?
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    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Bill Bruford And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.
    Bill Bruford
    English drummer, composer and producer (1949 - )
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  • George Orwell Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Robert Cialdini By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.
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  • Barbara Demick By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • C. Wright Mills Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • E. M. Forster Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Voltaire Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Ben Shapiro During the Great Depression, levels of crime actually dropped. During the 1920s, when life was free and easy, so was crime. During the 1930s, when the entire American economy fell into a government-owned alligator moat, crime was nearly non-existent. During the 1950s and 1960s, when the economy was excellent, crime rose again.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Beeban Kidron Each January, nearly half a million people visit the small town of Saundatti for ajatre or festival, to be blessed by Yellamma, the Hindu goddess of fertility.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Hosea Ballou Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • Bill Dedman Federal agencies that own bridges have some of the worst records for on-time inspections. Nearly 3,000 bridges owned by U.S. government agencies went more than two years between checkups.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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