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6149 Nor quotes by 3085 unique authors
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The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the…
— William Blake
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Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness…
— Samuel Johnson
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Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite…
— Henry David Thoreau
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A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.
— Carlos Castaneda
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The spirit of a warrior is not geared to indulging and complaining, nor is it geared to winning or losing. The spirit of a warrior…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is…
— Ayn Rand
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Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.
— Seneca the Younger
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To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality…
— Ayn Rand
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There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.
— Frank Chodorov
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
— Vernon Howard
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Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life,…
— William Wordsworth
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There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is.
— Meister Eckhart
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I will do today that which is of today and pay no heed to the tomorrow; nor waste regrets on that which was yesterday.
— Walter Russell
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My day shall be filled to overflowing, yet shall I not haste the day; nor shall I waste the day.
— Walter Russell
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When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a sweet taste. The…
— Fritjof Capra
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It seems to be saying perpetually; 'I am the end of the nineteenth century; I am glad they built me of iron; let me rust.'…
— Hilaire Belloc
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Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself,…
— Aldo Leopold
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Among innumerable footsteps of divine providence to be found in the works of nature, there is a very remarkable one to be observed in the…
— John Arbuthnot
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I think she [Rosalind Franklin] was a good experimentalist but certainly not of the first rank. She was simply not in the same class as…
— Francis Crick
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[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration of my views…
— Charles Lyell
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If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in diligent…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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