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Vladimir Nabokov (9)
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
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Nagarjuna (2)
Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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Ogden Nash (14)
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
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George Jean Nathan (12)
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
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Daniel Nathans (2)
And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.
33 quotes about medical
Anna Neagle (2)
The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.
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Jawaharlal Nehru (11)
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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Howard Nemerov (9)
I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.
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Simon Newcomb (2)
My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
38 thoughts about fatherhood
Reinhold Niebuhr (15)
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.
233 sayings about being alone
Friedrich Nietzsche (103)
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
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Earl Nightingale (6)
Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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Florence Nightingale (4)
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
323 wisdom & wit about death
Anais Nin (21)
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
249 wisdom & wit regarding aging
Kwame Nkrumah (2)
Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
199 quotes about freedom
Alfred Nobel (2)
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
249 wisdom & wit about aging
Frank Norris (2)
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
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Henri Nouwen (2)
In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.
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