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  • William S. Burroughs Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ''creative observation.'' Creative viewing.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Blaise Pascal Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bob Barker Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered.
    Bob Barker
    American television game show host (1923 - )
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  • Charles de Gaulle Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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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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  • Adam McKay Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
    Adam McKay
    American filmmaker (1968 - )
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  • Samuel Beckett Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Bob Riley Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Russell Hoban Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.
    Russell Hoban
    American writer (1925 - 2011)
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  • Garrison Keillor Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
    Garrison Keillor
    American humoristic writer (1942 - )
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  • Paul Auster Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Joan Didion Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.
    (2006)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Anita Diamant November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Bess Truman Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day.
    Bess Truman
    American first lady (1885 - 1982)
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  • Carole King Now ain't it good to know
    That you've got a friend
    When People can be so cold.
    They'll hurt you, kiss and desert you.
    And take your soul if you let them.
    Oh, but don't you let them.
    Tapestry (1971) Youve Got a Friend
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Bob Dylan Now at midnight all the agents, and the superhuman crew, come out and round up everyone, that knows more then they do.
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Lord George Byron Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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