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What was after the universe?Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stop...

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James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

I really don't know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I kno...

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.

Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The a...

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Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of ta...

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I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

If there is anything worse than evil, it is nothingness. At least evil has a form, and a voice, and ...

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This pain, this terrible seeing-through that is in me now. It wasn't necessary. It is all pain, and ...

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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, a...

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

I've had nothing to do with the intelligence world since I left it, in any shade or variety.

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

'Design' is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.

Thomas! What are you doing!" and I gestured, "I thought this was Nothing," covering myself with one ...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing.

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

...people with nothing to declare carry the most.

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

... we decided to create a Nothing Place in the living room, it seemed necessary, because there are ...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the ...

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The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the li...

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Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like w...

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Nothing in life is promised except death.

turns me on so loud it's like no sound, everybody yelling at me hands over their ears from behind a ...

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Ken KeseyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your know...

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Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to ...

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Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then m...

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In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension fast...

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There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be eve...

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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something...

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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and...

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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that noth...

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When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.

There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches ...

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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat...

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Margaret AtwoodThe Blind Assassin

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will u...

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Max BrooksWorld War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

I don't know nothing about no marriages or nothing. I ain't even never been to a wedding.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one fe...

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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

I like American cars. And I would do nothing to hurt the U.S. auto industry.

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

To do nothing is the way to be nothing.

Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin ...

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Nothing happened. Nothing continued to happen. More Nothing. The Return of Nothing. Son of Nothing. ...

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You’re as plain as the nose on your face,” said Mr. Pennyworth. “And your nose is remarkably obvious...

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...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this st...

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The Constitution of the United States has absolutely nothing to say about a constitutional right to ...

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To break free from this vexatious and awful never-ending cycle, this flood of outrageous thoughts, a...

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I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is w...

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All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just musi...

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Oh, beloved, and there is nothing but shadowswhere you accompany me in your dreamsand tell me the ho...

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We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.

They were everything they ought to be and nothing else.

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Patrick RothfussThe Slow Regard of Silent Things

Nothing was nothing else. Nothing was anything it shouldn’t be.

-What is nothing? I impetuously asked.-It is what you can see of your eyes without a mirror, was the...

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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the at...

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God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Cars mean nothing to me. I'm not a car guy.

Technology adds nothing to art.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

Let me sleep," he said, and shut the door; it clicked in her face and she felt animal terror - this ...

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Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.