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  • Mark Twain My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Roland Barthes Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • William Shakespeare Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
    For loan oft loses both itself and friend.
    Hamlet 1, 3
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Aeschylus Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Austrian composer, pianist, violinist and conductor (1756 - 1791)
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  • Bertrand Russell Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
    An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Ovid Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Carl Van Doren Neither creator nor critic can make himself universal by barely taking thought about it. He is what he lives. The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts Into his work. The measure of the critic is the amount of life he finds there.
    The Roving Critic (1923)
    Carl Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1950)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • William Wordsworth Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Henry Fielding Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Samuel Butler Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Herodotus Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]
    Herodotus
    Greek historian (484 - 425)
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  • Alexander Graham Bell Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
    The Military Quotation Book by James Charlton p. 37
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator (1847 - 1922)
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  • C. Wright Mills Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
    The Sociological Imagination
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Benjamin Haydon Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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