Quotes 8221 till 8240 of 10331.
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.
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There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.
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There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
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There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.
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There is nothing more rewarding than winning when you're looked at as not being capable of doing so.
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There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
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There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.
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There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to ''realize'' myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have ''succeeded,'' this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is ''realizable.'' Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.
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There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me - I always feel that they have not said enough.
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