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• This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.

  Patrick Henry

  Gun, House, Dying

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• Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.

  Caleb Carr

  New York, Charity, Killers

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• I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Reading, Writing, Views

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• I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe.

  Paul Klee

  Knowing Nothing, Europe, History

  "Artists on Art, from the 14th - 20th centuries". Book edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, p. 442, 1972.

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• From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.

  Niki Lauda

  Careers, Conclusion, Wells

  Source: www.european-business.com

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• Invalidating laws has absolutely nothing to do with judicial activism. It depends on whether the law is unconstitutional or not. That's really the key point.

  Ann Coulter

  Keys, Law, Activism

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• I knew absolutely nothing about bondage. I'd always presumed it was just an inventive way of keeping your partner from going home.

  Kathy Lette

  Home, Way, Bondage

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• Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through playing people who are absolutely nothing like me.

  Karen Traviss

  Writing, Adventure, Exploring The World

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• I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  United States, Unusual, Frenchmen

  "The Artist: the silent film they said no one wanted to see". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2011.

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• Ive heard of nothing coming from nothing, but Ive never heard of absolutely nothing coming from hard work.

  Uzo Aduba

  Hard Work, Heard, Hard

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• Whether it be Beyonce or Justin Bieber, we see singers who have absolutely nothing to offer anyone as they walk off stage clutching three Grammys in each hand.

  Steven Morrissey

  Hands, Three, Singers

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• It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.

  Rene Descartes

  Space, Vacuums, Contrary

  Principia Philosophiae pt. 2, sec. 16 (1644)

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• As far as the fans, I always say it because it's the truth: without them I'm absolutely nothing.

  Pitbull

  Fans

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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• Given so much, What have I done to Deserve it? Nothing, Absolutely nothing. No wonder my heart Dances.

  Ann Lewin-Benham

  Spiritual, Heart, Done

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• The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, History, Sides

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

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• The Big Bang has made Idealists out of almost anybody who thinks. First there was absolutely nothing, then Bang! Something. This is beyond weird. Out of sheerest Emptiness, manifestation arises.

  Ken Wilber

  Thinking, Bangs, Firsts

  Ken Wilber (2007). “A Brief History of Everything”, p.36, Shambhala Publications

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• Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.

  Simone Weil

  Men, Europe, People

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• You have to start giving first and expect absolutely nothing.

  Dalai Lama

  Giving, Firsts

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• Anyone who has brought up children knows that consistency has absolutely nothing to do with discipline.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Discipline, Consistency

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• Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes prostrate submission or "surrender" as a maxim to its adherents, and demands deference and respect from nonbelievers into the bargain. There is nothing-absolutely nothing-in its teachings that can even begin to justify such arrogance and presumption.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Teaching, Arrogance, Islam

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.129, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Solitude, Honor, Earning

  Witold Gombrowicz, Jan Kott, Lillian Vallee (1989). “Diary”, p.30, Northwestern University Press

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• Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do.

  Harrison Ford

  Men, Aging, Hell

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• I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Money, Women, Order

  Statement to the Court, delivered 14 [or 18] September 1918, Federal Court of Cleveland, Ohio

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• Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

  Ray Knight

  Sports, Funny Inspirational, Athlete

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• Initially there's absolutely nothing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Taoism

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