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"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Nothing, Oratory

"It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on."

Marilyn Monroe, American Actress

Nothing,

"Nothing endures but personal qualities."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Nothing,

"It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Nothing, Statesman, Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Nothing, Words

"Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

Nothing,

"Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block."

Annie Dillard, American Author

Nothing, Past, Will, Wood

"There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence."

Charles Caleb Colton, English Writer

Nothing, Prudence

"Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing."

Charles Caleb Colton, English Writer

Nothing, Selfishness

"We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens."

James Hillman, American Psychologist

Nothing, Risk

Explore more quotes by Dag Hammarskjold

"Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines."

Time

"I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive."

Death

"I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one."

God

""Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights."

Rights

"In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us."

Death

"It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity."

Society

"If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer."

Improvement

"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."

Life

"Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning."

History

"Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves."

People