"It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else."

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"It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else."

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"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"Thou hast seen nothing yet."

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"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

Simone Weil, French Philosopher

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"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."

Alice Walker, American Author

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"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger."

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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

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"The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough."

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"We had as lief not be as not be ourselves."

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