Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • Nicolas Chamfort Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • A. E. Housman Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • John Ruskin Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Necessity is not an established fact, but rather an interpretation.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Anne Sexton Need is not quite belief.
    Anne Sexton
    American poet (1928 - 1974)
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  • Abe Fortas Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
    Abe Fortas
    American lawyer and jurist (1910 - 1982)
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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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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  • Ben Stein Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We're not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it's called Darwinism.
    Source: Citizen Link: Friday Five: Actor Ben Stein. Citizen Link: Friday Five: Actor Ben Stein
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Ariel Sharon Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have.
    Ariel Sharon
    Israeli general and politician (1928 - 2014)
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  • Richard Whately Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Mark Twain Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Gita Bellin Never be afraid to treat the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.
    Gita Bellin
     
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  • J. K. Rowling Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
    J. K. Rowling
    British novelist, screenwriter, and producer (1965 - )
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  • Benjamin Haydon Never disregard what your enemies say. They may be severe, they may be prejudiced, they may be determined to see only in one direction, but still in that direction see clearly. They do not speak all the truth, but they generally speak the truth from one point of view; so far as that goes, attend to them.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Jane Welsh Carlyle Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
    Jane Welsh Carlyle
    Scottish writer (1801 - 1866)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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