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  • Barbara McClintock There is no question that plants have [all] kinds of sensitivities. But just because they sit there, anybody walking down the road considers them just a plastic area to look at, [as if] they're not really alive.
    Barbara McClintock
    American scientist and cytogeneticist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Chief Seattle There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • Allan Bloom There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Eugène Ionesco There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
    Eugène Ionesco
    Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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  • Anna Sewell There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.
    Anna Sewell
    English novelist (1820 - 1878)
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  • George Bernard Shaw There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Gore Vidal There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo - or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Andrew Carnegie There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Walt Whitman There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de  Sévigné There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.
    Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné
    French letter writer and aristocrat (1626 - 1696)
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  • John Keats There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Barack Obama There is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America — there's the United States of America.
    Speech DNC, 2004
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • William Hazlitt There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • T. S. Eliot There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Bob Geldof There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Shashi Tharoor There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.
    Shashi Tharoor
    Indian politician and writer (1956 - )
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  • Susan B. Anthony There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.
    Susan B. Anthony
    American women's rights activist (1820 - 1906)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow There is not grief that does not speak.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • John Webster There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
    John Webster
    English dramatist (1580 - 1634)
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