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My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences.

Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is time to re-establish a climate of calmness and mutual respect.

I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.

There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish.

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'

I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.

Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.

We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we have in the Gaza Strip is not a state, but rather a regime of an elected government. A Palestinian state will not be created at this time except in the territories of 1967.

Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.

Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country.

We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.

Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.

Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.