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  • Henry Fielding There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Elisabeth Kübler-Ross There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    Swiss-American psychiatrist (1926 - 2004)
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  • E. J. Hobsbawm There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.
    E. J. Hobsbawm
    British historian
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  • Joan Rivers There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
    Joan Rivers
    American stand-up comedian, actress, writer and producer (1933 - 2014)
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  • George Bernard Shaw There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Shakespeare There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Milan Kundera There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Will Durant There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Francis Bacon 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.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Burgess Owens There is nothing more rewarding than winning when you're looked at as not being capable of doing so.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • René Descartes There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
    René Descartes
    French philosopher, scientist (1596 - 1650)
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  • Peter F. Drucker There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Vauvenargues There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Havelock Ellis There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Eugène Ionesco There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to ''realize'' myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have ''succeeded,'' this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is ''realizable.'' Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.
    Eugène Ionesco
    Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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  • Mark Twain There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me - I always feel that they have not said enough.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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