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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Thomas Love Peacock Nothing can be more obvious than all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
    Source: Headlong hall (1816)
    Thomas Love Peacock
    English novelist, poet, and official (1785 - 1866)
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  • John Bunyan Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.
    John Bunyan
    British writer (1628 - 1688)
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  • Angelus Silesius Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.
    Angelus Silesius
    German Catholic priest and physician (1624 - 1677)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • A. Philip Randolph Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.
    A. Philip Randolph
    American labor unionist and civil rights activist (1889 - 1979)
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  • Francis Bacon Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.
    Benjamin Stillingfleet
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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  • Arthur Wellesley Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
    Arthur Wellesley
    Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman (1769 - 1852)
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  • Carrie Donovan Nothing exists if a store doesn't buy it and you're not able to get it.
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  • William S. Burroughs Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ''creative observation.'' Creative viewing.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Charles de Gaulle Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Bill Cosby Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.
    Source: ISBN: 9780929631004 Selected from Fatherhood and Time Flies (1989 edit
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Pearl S. Buck Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. ''
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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