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There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.
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There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
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There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.
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There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to ''Americanize'' him.
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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 agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
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There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
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There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.
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There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
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