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  • Thomas Carlyle Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Nothing in the world is single. All things by al law divine in one another's being mingle. Why not I with thine?
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Bill Ayers Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.
    Bill Ayers
    American elementary education theorist (1944 - )
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  • Lord Arthur Balfour Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
    Lord Arthur Balfour
    British statesman (1848 - 1930)
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  • David Gemmell Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.
    Source: Troy: Shield Of Thunder (1990) 193
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Anna Howard Shaw Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.
    Anna Howard Shaw
    American activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement (1847 - 1919)
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  • Casey Stengel Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Arthur E. Waite Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
    Arthur E. Waite
    American-born British poet and mystic (1857 - 1942)
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  • A. E. Housman Now, of my threescore years and ten,
    Twenty will not come again,
    And take from seventy springs a score,
    It only leaves me fifty more.

    And since to look at things in bloom
    Fifty springs are little room,
    About the woodlands I will go
    To see the cherry hung with snow.
    Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 2, st. 2-3
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Oscar Wilde Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Al Jarreau Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion.
    Al Jarreau
    American singer and musician (1940 - 2017)
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  • Carly Fiorina Obviously the Senate is a federal office, but to get California's economy moving again we need to do some things in the federal arena.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • John Ruskin Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself - my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness - darkness - bitter mockery of herself - is the most desolating.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Euripides Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Richard Dawkins Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things, too.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Jeanette Winterson Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.
    Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (2007) 141
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau Of what significance are the things you can forget.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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