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The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
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No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
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No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
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See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
Every form of addiction is bad,
no matter whether the narcotic
be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
- Carl Jung
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller
We live in a wonderful world that is
full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is no emotion,
there is no motive for violence.
- the character Spock in the Star Trek television series
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
- Oprah Winfrey
Choose with no regret.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
- Carl Jung
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
If I had no sense of humor,
I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
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