"Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught."

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"Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught."

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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."

George Eliot, British Author

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"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"Nothing proves that we are more than nothing."

Emile M. Cioran, Romanian Philosopher

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"There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."

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"When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us."

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"The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face."

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"People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault."

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"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run."

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"Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better."

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