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Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.
Up From Slavery (1901) ch. XII -
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
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One problem I have definitely solved is the problem of not having enough to worry about.
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Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.
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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say ''In spite of all!'' has the calling for politics.
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Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
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Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
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Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
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Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
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Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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People tend to remember my performances, not me.
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Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
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Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.
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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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