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We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

I had no money nor friends to prepare for the trial till last night.

The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor hath it ever entered into the heart of men to conceive Boston ever to arrive at.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

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

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.

Shakespeare was not meant for taverns, nor for tavern louts.

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.

September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

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

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts.

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.