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  • Barbra Streisand Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Box Brown Nobody's perfect, and everybody plays the heel and the baby face at times in real life.
    Box Brown
    American cartoonist
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  • Vaclav Havel None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Boris Johnson Not even Mr Blair has been able to erode the unions conviction that we all have a right to a minimum wage… Both the minimum wage and the Social Charter would palpably destroy jobs.
    Lend Me Your Ears p387
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Pindar Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
    Pindar
    Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes (522 - 443)
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  • John S. Bonnell Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.
    John S. Bonnell
    American pastor
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  • William Penn Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • John Milton Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Robert Schumann Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.
    Robert Schumann
    German composer (1810 - 1856)
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  • William E. Gladstone Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Al Stewart Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it.
    Al Stewart
    Scottish singer-songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Adam Weishaupt Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Barbara Walters Now here I was, half Jane Wyman, half Shirley Temple, and people began to stop me in the street and say, 'Don't worry, Barbara, it's all right, you won't lose your job.' It was really very touching.
    Chris Chase, A Talk With the Unsinkable Barbara Walters, New York Magazine (March 25, 1974)
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • A. E. Housman Now hollow fires burn out to black,
    And lights are guttering low:
    Square your shoulders, lift your pack,
    And leave your friends and go.

    Oh never fear, man, nought's to dread,
    Look not to left nor right:
    In all the endless road you tread
    There's nothing but the night.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • C. S. Lewis Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.
    Mere Christianity (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Sir Thomas Malory Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.
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  • Terence Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Andrew Jackson Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • David Lehman Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.
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