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He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey / Soon, the whole hive collapses. - Nagarjuna (c. 100-200 A.D.) Vanity made the revolution; liberty was only a pretext. -Napoleon You become writer by writing. It is a yoga. -R.K. Narayan, novelist (1906-2001) To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up. -Ogden Nash, author (1902-1971) The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly. -Ogden Nash, author (1902-1971) Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long. (Ogden Nash) Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. -George Jean Nathan, author and editor (1882-1958) The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. -Martina
Navrtilova The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed. -Suzanne Necker, author (1739-1794) Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. -Suzanne Necker, author (1739-1794)
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient observation
than to any other reason. -Isaac Newton I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. -Isaac Newton, philosopher and mathematician (1642-1727)
Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose. -Beverly Nichols, author Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. -John Nichols, novelist (1940- )
They came for the communists, and I did not speak up because I wasn't a communist;
They came for the socialists, and I did not speak up because I was not a socialist;
They came for the union leaders, and I did not speak up because I wasn't a union
leader; They came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then
they came for me, and there was no one left to speak up for me. -Martin Niemoller,
1892-1984
Friedrich Nietzsche ~1844-1900,
German Philosopher
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. -Louis Nizer, lawyer (1902-1994)
True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess. -Louis Nizer,
lawyer (1902-1994) I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice. -Joyce Carol Oates, writer (1938- ) All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. -Sean O'Casey, playwright (1880-1964) Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. -Flannery O'Connor, writer (1925-1964) If you don't execute your ideas, they die. -Roger von Oech, author and consultant Hot lead can be almost as effective coming from a linotype as from a firearm. -John O'Hara, journalist (1905-1970)
The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings. Kakuzo Okakaura If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well
matters very much. -Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. -George Orwell If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. -George Orwell, writer (1903-1950) The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. -George Orwell, writer(1903-1950) During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. -George Orwell, writer (1903-1950) If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. -George Orwell, writer (1903-1950) Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. - Ronald E. Osborn Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry. Charles Osgood Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. -Ovid, poet (43 BCE - CE 17) You can learn from anyone even your enemy. -Ovid, poet (43 BCE - CE 17)
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