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I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet -- a… — Bertrand Russell
I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing… — Mahatma Gandhi
There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling… — Diane Ackerman
Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage. — Mahatma Gandhi
Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?" "Yes," said Harry stiffly. "Yes, sir." "There's no need to call me "sir"… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you… — Frank Herbert
When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. — Katherine Mansfield
How could you possibly know that no religion can see the whole truth unless you yourself have the superior, comprehensive knowledge of spiritual reality you… — Timothy Keller
If two people stare at each other for more than a few seconds, it means they are about to either make love or fight. Something… — Robert Wright
No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American. — Anthony Bourdain
Non...I am DANCING IN MY NUDDY-PANTS!!!' And we both laughed like loons on loon tablets. I danced for ages round the house in my nuddy-pants.… — Louise Rennison
it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers. — Wallace Stegner
Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me. — Flannery O'Connor
He didn't call his father and mother 'Father' and 'Mother' but Harold and Alberta. They were very up to date and advanced people. They were… — C.S. Lewis
By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic… — Herbert Marcuse
Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly… — Epicurus
I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent… — Alain Badiou
It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the… — Sheldon Vanauken
Jassie, guess what I'm dancing in!' 'I don't know, a bowl?' 'Non... I am dancing in my Nuddy-pants! — Louise Rennison
Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom. — Tom Bissell
The non-fiction bestseller lists frequently prove that we all want to know more about everything, even if we didn't know that we wanted to know… — Nick Hornby
Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very… — Leo Tolstoy
Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character. — Spencer W. Kimball
Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.) — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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