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MURIEL SPARK The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the reade...
OSWALD SPENGLER Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor ...
CICERO Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor ju...
JAMES A. GARFIELD Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear...
PATRICIA POLACCO Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understandi...
C. WRIGHT MILLS Unfortunately as precious as time is, it can neither be stored nor preserved
SUNDAY ADELAJA A man without happiness is neither good nor well.
VIKRANT PARSAI Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
BLAISE PASCAL In other words, neither oppression nor exploitation as such is ever the main cause for resentment; w...
HANNAH ARENDT Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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DR HITESH C SHETH There have been so many legal violations that you can consider this election will be neither clean n...
ELDAR NAMAZOV Yes. It was to be used in disposition for tax purposes.
KENNETH J. CROFT Licorice root has been used for medicinal purposes in many cultures for thousands of years.
J. KAVIN KELP There is neither Self-knowledge nor Self-perception to those whose senses are not under control. Wit...
BHAGAVAD GITA Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of...
TIMOTHY ZAHN Common sense can neither be created nor destroyed, it can be polished with your life experience.
DIVYA SHARMA A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a ...
MARY ASTOR Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injust...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injust...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU What can be labeled, packaged, mass produced is neither truth nor art.
MARTY RUBIN A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA The most essential requirement for leaders is neither age nor gender. It is neither certificates nor...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR For I am convinced that neither death nor life neither angels nor demons neither the present nor the...
ANONYMOUS Neither from itself nor from another,Nor from both,Nor without a cause,Does anything whatever, anywh...
NAGARJUNA A lofty cane, a sword with silver hilt, A ring, two watches, and a snuff box gilt.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as m...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Beauty can be created, knowledge learned, but talent can neither be purchased nor taught.
DANIELLE L. JENSEN No bullet can stop us now, we neither beg nor will we bow neither can be bought or sold
BOB MARLEY No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kin...
FRANCIS BACON But neither bended knees, pure hands held up, Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349 Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, g...
RICHARD ROLLE Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outl...
EUDORA WELTY The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, i...
LEONARDO DA VINCI The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL As it is not proper to cure the eyes without the head, nor the head without the body, so neither is ...
LOOMIS Neither man nor any animal can enjoy life to the full without taking some risks to life or limb.
PHILIP BROWN Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.
LIVY Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any i...
GEORGE BERKELEY Many of us, both Jews and Christians, want the public square to be pluralistic, which is neither par...
DAVID NOVAK Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe a...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several ...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE There is neither creation nor destruction,
neither destiny nor free will, neither
path nor...
RAMANA MAHARSHI I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some experts believe that somebody is deceiving WikiLeaks, that its reputation is being undermined i...
VLADIMIR PUTIN Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.
FATOS NANO Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living, no...
JANE AUSTEN Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced ...
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that coope...
TOM G. PALMER Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD What God does can neither be quantified by numbers nor qualified by words.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL TANTRA is a field that says neither abstain nor be obsessed. This can be handled by a few, even if y...
ANUPAMA GARG The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our lear...
ROBERT KENNEDY The health exception is based on professional respect and regard for doctors. Health is anything a d...
DAVID GARROW service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of...
MAHATMA GANDHI He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase...
BIBLE Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds
BUDDHA BUDDHA Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds
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ANDREW JOHNSON Many of you are probably surprised I have neither feathers nor horns.
TIM COLLINS Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
ELLIS PETERS I have neither been there nor done that
NANCY CARTWRIGHT I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
AARON SORKIN It is likely that it will never be used as a legal instrument. The most important thing is that when...
RUSSELL ATKINSON We are still investigating how these items were to be used, but you can rest assured they were not f...
JULIE MYERS A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two thin...
LEMN SISSAY Life is neither this or that, right nor left, it is just life whose light is visibly bright if one c...
ANUJ SOMANY In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and ca...
WILLIAM HAGUE Jesus neither said,"It will be finished", nor "It may be finished", but He said,"It is finished".
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL The power of the
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that c...
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MAX BROOKS If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself,...
FRANCIS QUARLES Do not be afraid of failure, it is part of the learning process
SOTONYE ANGA Neither Heaven nor Hell. It is simply Purgatory.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Neither indulgence nor renunciation helps, only awareness can.
PRAVIN PRAJAPATI Neither Man, nor machine can replace its creator.
TAPAN GHOSH Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
OSCAR WILDE Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.
ARBIE M. DALE Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to rea...
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LEO TOLSTOY It is neither fair nor unfair, Nobody Owens. It simply is
NEIL GAIMAN There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus
BIBLE Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it.
ENGLISH PROVERB Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it
ITALIAN PROVERB Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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