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Just for you non-sea-god types out there, don't go swimming in New York Harbor. It may not be as filthy as it was in my… — Rick Riordan
there are the non-believers, make believers and true believers! — Sister Souljah
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny… — John Stuart Mill
colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of… — Jack Kerouac
So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs,… — D. H. Lawrence
The truth was that she had managed to betray everyone by doing nothing. No one in history had ever done less and yet been so… — Maureen Johnson
And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is… — Hannah Arendt
I don't think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don't think if, by playing safe he means we are not… — Rod Serling
So this Zealot comes to my door, all glazed eyes and clean reproductive organs, asking me if I ever think about God. So I tell… — Warren Ellis
Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts… — John H. McWhorter
I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite… — Christopher Hitchens
Non est ad astra mollis e terris via. That's my philosophy. Its a quote from the past. "There is no easy way from the earth… — Cecil Castellucci
To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who entered the meat… — Eugene B. Sledge
Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving. — Lauren Groff
The other exception to the rule regards dealings with masochists. A masochist derives pleasure from being hurt; so denying the masochist his pleasure through-pain hurts… — Anton Szandor LaVey
Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not — Jules Verne
I'm no military expert, and these figures might not be exactly right,' I said. 'But as best I can tell, we've launched 114 Tomahawk cruise… — Greg Mortenson
America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The sun has set forever on that monocled, pith-helmeted… — Malcolm X
There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which… — Nick Flynn
There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979 — Kinky Friedman
He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from Self,… — Hermann Hesse
There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness — Fernando Pessoa
I would never date a girl who insisted that I cut you out of my life. It’s non-negotiable. You want a piece of all this… — Cassandra Clare
Grace is the celebration of life, relentlessly hounding all the non-celebrants in the world. It is a floating, cosmic bash shouting its way through the… — Robert Farrar Capon

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