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• You seem to forget that I'm Evie's legal guardian." "And you seem to forget that there's absolutely nothing legal about your guardianship, considering all the documents were forged.

  Kiersten White

  Forget, Guardian, Considering

  Kiersten White (2011). “Supernaturally”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Your hands are like dogs, going to the same places they've been. You have to be careful when playing is no longer in the mind but in the fingers, going to happy places. You have to break them of their habits or you don't explore; you only play what is confident and pleasing. I'm learning to break those habits by playing instruments I know absolutely nothing about, like a bassoon or a waterphone.

  Tom Waits

  Dog, Hands, Play

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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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• We know nothing. Absolutely nothing.

  Steven Millhauser

  Knows

  Steven Millhauser (2015). “The Wizard of West Orange”, p.19, Vintage

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• Nothing can separate you from His love, absolutely nothing, neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature... We do not need to beg Him to bless us, He simply cannot help it. Therefore God is enough! God is enough for time, God is enough for eternity. God is enough!

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  God, Religious, Time

  "God of All Comfort".

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• What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cat, Destiny, Philosopher

  Henry David Thoreau, Wesley T. Mott, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (2005). “Bonds of Affection: Thoreau on Dogs and Cats”, p.65, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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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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• Sometimes, you see folks who have a negative view of dreamers - people who sit around all day on their hindquarters and do absolutely nothing. These folks aren't dreamers - they are just lazy. To me, dreaming is just part of being alive, inspired, and curious about the world.

  Dolly Parton

  Dream, Views, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• Initially there's absolutely nothing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Taoism

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• What takes courage: no make - up. No make - up at all. Like The Matrix. I did the matrix and they had a rule all the characters in The Matrix, except the leads, of course, wore absolutely nothing on their face.

  Ian McLeod

  Character, Faces, Courses

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• A prayerful life is not a life in which we say many prayers, but a life in which nothing, absolutely nothing, is done, said, or understood independently of him who is the origin and purpose of our existence.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Purpose, Done

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, p.23, Convergent Books

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• What is going to happen in the course of my day that will be an improvement over lying on something very soft, underneath something very warm, wearing only underwear, doing absolutely nothing, all by myself?

  Chuck Klosterman

  Lying, Underwear, Improvement

  Chuck Klosterman (2008). “Downtown Owl: A Novel”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface.

  Roald Dahl

  Surface, Below The Surface

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• And when I say that is certainly true, that our marriage is over. I know what else she will say: "Then you must save it." And even though I know it's hopeless- there's absolutely nothing left to save-I'm afraid if I tell her that, she'll still persuade me to try.

  Amy Tan

  Trying, Hopeless, Stills

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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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• There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren't watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.

  Bennett Cerf

  People, Would Be, Television

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• Switzerland is my favorite place now, because it's so - nothing. There is absolutely nothing to do.

  Andy Warhol

  Switzerland, Favorite Places, My Favorite

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• But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that,in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Farewell, Promise, Sorrow

  Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, Candlewick Press

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• Nothing. Absolutely nothing. No furniture, no light fittings, no carpet, no bodies. Not a single body. Nothing but the million ducks, the three million ducklings and a window.

  Nicky Singer

  Light, Ducks, Three

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• There is absolutely nothing in what Jesus himself or his early followers taught that suggests you can decide just to enjoy forgiveness at Jesus' expense and have nothing more to do with him.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Followers, Taught

  Dallas Willard (2009). “The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus’s Essential Teachings on Discipleship”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Sex, Kushiel's Dart

  Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Chosen”, p.68, Pan Macmillan

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• An inferior sense of smell," Marcus said, as if absolutely nothing of significance had happened, "is distinct from being told that one smells unpleasant.

  Jim Butcher

  Smell, Said, Significance

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Princeps' Fury”, p.37, Penguin

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• I don't get anywhere meditating," she said. "I see people sitting there with their eyes closed, a smile on their lips or else grave-faced and arrogant, concentrating on absolutely nothing, convinced that they're in touch with God or with the Goddess. So instead, let's listen to some music together.

  Paulo Coelho

  Music, Eye, People

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