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  • Ben Stein Nothing happens by itself. It all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Marcus Aurelius Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • John Berger Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Lao-Tzu Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Nothing in the world is single. All things by al law divine in one another's being mingle. Why not I with thine?
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Joyce Carol Oates Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
    Joyce Carol Oates
    American writer (1938 - )
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Plutarch Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Plutarch Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Andrew Young Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
    Andrew Young
    Amercan activisit and minister (1932 - )
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  • Thales of Miletus Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.
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  • René Descartes Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
    Original: Le bon sense est la chose du monde la mieux partagée, car chacun pense en être bien pourvu.
    René Descartes
    French philosopher, scientist (1596 - 1650)
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  • Milan Kundera Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Walter Benjamin Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Oscar Wilde Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jonathan Swift Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • George Macdonald Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Oscar Wilde Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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