"Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses."

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"Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses."

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"He is poor indeed that can promise nothing."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

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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."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance."

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"It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country."

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"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."

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"There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous."

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"War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford."

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"The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide."

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"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."

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"Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity."

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