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  • Lord George Byron Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    American suffragist, abolitionist and women's rights activist (1815 - 1902)
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  • Mark Twain Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Albert Einstein Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes - goodwill among men and peace on earth.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ernst Moritz Arndt Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.
    Ernst Moritz Arndt
    German nationalist historian, writer, and poet (1769 - 1860)
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  • Edmund Burke Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Joseph Roux Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • Bill Laswell Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of them and it became trendy and then it became a style.
    Bill Laswell
    American bass guitarist (1955 - )
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  • Boman Irani Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Selling potato chips was obvious, as it was a family business. When friends suggested I should try theatre, I gave it a shot. Then I did a lot of advertisements, and then movies happened.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Albert Einstein Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • François Fénelon Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Garrison Keillor Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
    Garrison Keillor
    American humoristic writer (1942 - )
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  • Aaron Douglas Trimble Nothing's better than the wind to your back, the sun in front of you, and your friends beside you.
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • S. I. Hayakawa Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
    S. I. Hayakawa
    Canada-American Senator (1902 - 1992)
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  • Adam Schiff Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • William Golding Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
    William Golding
    British writer (1911 - 1993)
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  • Paul Auster Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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