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A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.
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If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
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Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
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I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.
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I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom - one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
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It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.
St. John of the Cross
Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591) -
Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
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The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.
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When I use a word,'' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,'' it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.
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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.
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A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
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A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she 'adjust' to prejudice and discrimination.
The Feminine Mystique Ch. 1 The Problem That Has No Name -
A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
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A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.
On War (1832) -
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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After all he is only a man, that is to say capable of little and of much, of all and of nothing; he is neither angel nor brute, but man.
Pensees (1669)
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