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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
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The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights.
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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
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The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we are.
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The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no less natural and necessary than liberty but more dangerous.
Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p -
The world never forgives our talents, our successes, our friends, nor our pleasures. It only forgives our death. Nay, it does not always pardon that.
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The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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There are no peoples however primitive without religion and magic. Nor are there, it must be added at once, any savage races lacking either in the scientific attitude or in science, though this lack has been frequently attributed to them.
Source: Magic, Science and Religion (1925)― Bronislaw Malinowski
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
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There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
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There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
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There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.
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There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.
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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
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