Quotes 2961 till 2980 of 6002.
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Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.
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Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
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Not to go to the theatre is like making one's toilet without a mirror.
Source: The World in Falseface -
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
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Nothing ever holds together unless it is mixed with some of one's own blood.
Source: The Pornographe (2009) 14 -
Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
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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.
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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.
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Nothing in the world is single. All things by al law divine in one another's being mingle. Why not I with thine?
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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.
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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
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Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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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.
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Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
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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.
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
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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.
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