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- The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial... he cannot go along with currents and trends.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- Not to have felt pain is not to have been human.
- Jewish Proverb
- Not until just before dawn do people sleep best; not until people get old do they become wise.
- Chinese Proverb
- Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance as it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
- Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
- Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
- Henry Clay (1777 - 1852)
- One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.
- Harold Wilson (1916 - 1995)
- One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns he must die and accepts his sentence undismayed.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
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