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Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. – George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I was no petty thief, I wanted the world or nothing. – Charles Bukowski	added by anonymous 14 years ago
No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself and what he possesses else he lives precariously, and at discretion. – James Burgh	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical. – William Seward Burroughs	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional. – George Herbert Walker Bush	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. – Eric Butterworth	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter... This is it... If you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience here's the place to have the experience. – Joseph Campbell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing. – Orson Scott Card	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing. – John le Carre	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. – Johnny Carson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values. – Willa Sibert Cather	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else. – Oswald Chambers	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Those who try to give us advice on matters of human rights do nothing but provoke an ironic smile among us. We will not permit anyone to interfere in our affairs. – Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed. – I Ching	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and remains free from entanglements. – I Ching	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well. – Mary Cholmondeley	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. – Agatha Christie	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus

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