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  • Jonathan Swift Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Becki Newton Normally, it's one or the other - a pretty, straight woman or a more charactery woman who isn't supposed to be attractive. But women like Tina Fey are leading the charge on being both. You can be funny and attractive.
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Peter Carey Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.
    Peter Carey
    Australian writer (1943 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war, not merely peace for Americans, but peace for all men; not merely peace in our time, but peace for all time.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Bill Bailey Not a very well-known fact, but on planes they always carry a trombone just in case there's a disaster and they need to keep morale up. All cabin crew - fully proficient in the trombone. And of course there's a double facility: if you ditch at sea, it can be used as a snorkel.
    Source: Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Khaled Hosseini Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything.
    Source: The Kite Runner
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • Bob Uecker Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television... I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Plutarch Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
    Original: Nicht durch Zorn, sondern durch Lachen tötet man.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • William Wordsworth Not choice but habit rules the unreflecting herd.
    Source: Grant that by this (1822)
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Hunter S. Thompson Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • Ansel Adams Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • James Baldwin Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • James Russell Lowell Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Seneca Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Erich Fromm Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
    Source: Judicial opinions Meinhard v. Salmon, 249 N.Y. 458, 164 N.E. 545 (N.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Alcaeus of Mytilene Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
    Alcaeus of Mytilene
    Ancient Greek poet
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