Vladimir Nabokov (9)
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
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Nagarjuna (2)
Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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Ogden Nash (14)
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
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Daniel Nathans (2)
And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.
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Anna Neagle (2)
The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.
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Jawaharlal Nehru (11)
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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Howard Nemerov (9)
I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.
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Simon Newcomb (2)
My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
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Huey Newton (6)
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
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Reinhold Niebuhr (15)
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (103)
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
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Earl Nightingale (6)
Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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Florence Nightingale (4)
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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Anais Nin (21)
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Kwame Nkrumah (2)
Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
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Alfred Nobel (2)
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
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Frank Norris (2)
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
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Henri Nouwen (2)
In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.
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