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  • Diane Ackerman There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.
    Diane Ackerman
    American poet, essayist, savage and naturalist (1948 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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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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  • Sir Walter Raleigh There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Jean Baudrillard There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Martin Luther King There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth losing a job for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Bing Crosby There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.
    Bing Crosby
    American singer, comedian and actor (1903 - 1977)
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  • Mark Twain There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Alexander Herzen There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Agnes Repplier There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Seneca There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Seneca There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Guy Debord There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.
    Guy Debord
    French philosopher (1931 - 1994)
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  • Agatha Christie There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • John Keats There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Han Suyin There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
    Han Suyin
    Chinese-European writer (ps. by Elizabeth Comber) (1916 - 2012)
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  • John Galsworthy There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
    John Galsworthy
    British writer, playwright (1867 - 1933)
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  • Victor Hugo There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Oscar Wilde There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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