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No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.
‐‐ Buenaventura Durruti -
No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.
‐‐ Keith O'Brien -
No government in the world today has explicitly assigned the responsibility for planetary protection to any of its agencies.
‐‐ Rusty Schweickart -
No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.
‐‐ Jared Diamond -
No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.
‐‐ Cornelius Nepos -
No government, no head of state, made any attempt to avert or arrest the Boer War.
‐‐ Charles Albert Gobat -
No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our way of life depends on that vigilance.
‐‐ Barry O'Farrell -
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
‐‐ Anatole France -
No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.
‐‐ Taylor Mali -
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
‐‐ F. Scott Fitzgerald -
No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.
‐‐ Jonathan Sacks -
No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.
‐‐ Lyman Beecher -
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
‐‐ Rainer Maria Rilke -
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde -
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
‐‐ George Eliot -
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca -
No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
‐‐ Emma Goldman -
No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.
‐‐ Maurice Maeterlinck -
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
‐‐ Theodore Roosevelt -
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson -
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle -
No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
‐‐ Milan Kundera -
No great pastry chef has sweet teeth.
‐‐ Morley Safer -
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
‐‐ Murray Kempton -
No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling.
‐‐ Justin Kirk -
No great thing is created suddenly.
‐‐ Epictetus -
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
‐‐ Booker T. Washington -
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
‐‐ Herbert Hoover -
No greater problem is presented to the human mind.
‐‐ Annie Jump Cannon -
No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
‐‐ Epictetus -
No ground gained was ever relinquished.
‐‐ Matthew B. Ridgway -
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
‐‐ Franklin D. Roosevelt -
No group of our citizens can be denied the right to participate in the opportunities of first-class citizenship.
‐‐ Terry Sanford -
No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.
‐‐ Leland Ryken -
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
‐‐ Plautus -
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
‐‐ Bernard de Mandeville -
'No Hands' art goes straight back to Warhol. He was the first to use elves.
‐‐ Tom Wolfe -
No hard guy's not scared when another hard guy's knife is coming at you. You're scared, obviously, but you've to act less scared than he is. It's who is going to act less scared.
‐‐ Peter Mullan -
No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
‐‐ Theodor Adorno -
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
‐‐ David McCullough -
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
‐‐ Theodore Bikel -
No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important if she wasn't just writing about romantic relationships.
‐‐ Sophie Hannah -
No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
‐‐ B. R. Ambedkar -
No historical analogies are exactly precise.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein -
No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
‐‐ T. E. Hulme -
No holiday, no job, no amount of money, not even my own security can mean more to me than my love for God.
‐‐ Monica Johnson -
No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those discoveries on the scientific, philosophic, and artistic work of his contemporaries: but not, by any means, necessarily through Freud's own writing.
‐‐ Dylan Thomas -
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
‐‐ Harry Emerson Fosdick -
No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me.
‐‐ Colonel Sanders
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