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# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

"Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind."

By Alfred North Whitehead

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"Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund."

By F. J. Raymond

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"Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it."

By Tallulah Bankhead

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"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris ... [because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping."

By Orville Wright

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"No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country."

By General George Patton

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"No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart."

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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"Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians."

By David Brinkley

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"network: anything reticulated or decussated, with interstices between the intersections"

By from the Dictionary of Samuel Johnson

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"Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science."

By von Weizsacker

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"No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person."

By Willa Cather

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"Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase "being born" is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while "dying" means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged."

By Ovid, Metamorphoses

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"Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations."

By Henry David Thoreau

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"Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed."

By Maria Montessori

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"No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report...."

By Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109

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"Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry."

By Henry Ward Beecher

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"Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong."

By Baltasar Gracian

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"Never have children, only grandchildren."

By Gore Vidal

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"No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather."