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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. (Miguel de Cervantes)
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong". View quote
Sydney J. Harris
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement. View quote
Germaine Greer
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. View quote
James Thurber
It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else. View quote
William Hazlitt
The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours. View quote
William Hazlitt
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. View quote
Blaise Pascal
If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others. View quote
Ayn Rand
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave neither room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. (George Boole)
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face. View quote
John Donne
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. View quote
Theodor Adorno
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. View quote
Thornton Wilder
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. View quote
Edmund Burke
Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar. View quote
Robert Frost
Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear a sound. Pain is near that will be like no pain felt before. View quote
Norman Mailer
The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter. (Henry Miller)
Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests, that the United States is, or should or could be the global gendarme. View quote
Robert McNamara
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. View quote
Emil Cioran
We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them. View quote
Livy
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. View quote
Joseph Addison