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Nothing Quotes
"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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"All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed."
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"I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence."
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"I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible."
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"It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it."
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"I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred."
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"All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."
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"Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens."
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"By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing."
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"There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast."
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"Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state."
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"My hairdresser and I found ourselves shopping at Bloomingdale's with nothing to do for days."
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"There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot."
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"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
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"I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing."
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"I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter."
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"To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing."
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"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles."
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"Nothing you wear is more important than your smile."
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"When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again."
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"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."
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"I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter."
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"Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon."
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"Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft."
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"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."
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"Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable."
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"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion."
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"I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed."
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"He was using me. When he cast me in Sideways I was nothing but a vessel."
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"Back then it was nothing like today. So you'd go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could be in the back and you could make out, you know? And you know how hot it was to make out."
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"You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing."
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"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world."
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"To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything."
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"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task."
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"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
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"In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct."
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"Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that new songs should be there because I've been away for awhile."
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