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6149 Nor quotes by 3085 unique authors
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Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither…
— Terry Pratchett
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First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and…
— Walpola Rahula
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You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's…
— Taisen Deshimaru
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Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not…
— John Thorn
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We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most…
— Jane Fonda
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Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that…
— Mother Teresa
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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Fifty or sixty shooters had already arrived and managed to look studiously bored. I knew a few of them and nodded politely. No one asked…
— Unknown Author
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Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.
— William Wordsworth
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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…
— Alcaeus
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After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not…
— D. H. Lawrence
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By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer…
— Janet Flanner
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France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
— Mark Twain
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It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we…
— Dinaw Mengestu
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Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire... Fear…
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he…
— Roger Bacon
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He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it…
— Saint Augustine
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The meaning of a work is not what the author had in mind at some point, nor is it simply a property of the text…
— Jonathan Culler
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Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear…
— William Wordsworth
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Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.
— J. G. Ballard
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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate…
— Edward Abbey
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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
— Edward Abbey
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Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
— Edward Abbey
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Going to bed with Gertrude Stein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Susan Sontag, or Margaret Thatcher: There are some things one prefers neither to do nor to have…
— Edward Abbey
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