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Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect, they are permanent.
Maimonides
Respect
Destruction
Destroyed
Only
Through
Permanent
Nor
Subject
Essence
Substance
Form
Transient
Bodies
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Long
Fall
Counterfeit
Takes
True
Like
Glory
Spreads
Nor
False
Any
Root
Ground
Even
Last
Flowers
As I obsess about my ancient problems, I feel more like I'm sinking in quicksand than lighting a torch. I'm creating neither heat nor light, just the icky, perversely pleasurable squish of self-pity between my toes. My only defense is that I'm not the only one down here in the muck - our whole culture is doting on tales of personal tragedy.
Martha Beck
Culture
Light
Problems
Sinking
Down
Defense
Our
Pleasurable
Ancient
Torch
Neither
About
More
Only
Obsess
Feel
Lighting
Between
Like
Tales
Self-Pity
Nor
Tragedy
Quicksand
Than
Personal
Heat
Just
Creating
Toes
Whole
Here
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
Mencius
Man
Will
Stupid
Sense
Alter
Him
Bids
Sake
His
Nor
Artist
Skillful
Workman
Measures
Sufficient
Right
Desire
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
Miguel de Cervantes
Secret
Promise
Neither
Drink
Nor
Moderately
Keeps
I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.
Nelson Mandela
Life
Freedom
Struggle
Surrender
Will
My Life
Sacrifice
South Africa
Fighting
Action
Only
Through
Days
Until
Leave
Continue
Nor
South
End
Won
Africa
Militant
Hardship
Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.
Norman Borlaug
Today
Food
Adequate
Evolved
Civilization
Food Supply
Could
Supply
Known
Without
Nor
Survive
When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?
Parker Palmer
Life
Myself
Me
Risks
New Life
Find
Daunting
Take
Nobody
Demands
New
Knows
Exempt
Were
Nor
Expect
Expected
Did
Tasks
Anything
Depressed
Might
Required
Who
For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
Patricia Highsmith
Life
Nature
Justice
Cares
Neither
Nor
Done
Ever
I have never received a single 'off-the-books cash payment' as falsely 'reported' by 'The New York Times,' nor have I never done work for the governments of Ukraine or Russia.
Paul Manafort
Work
Single
Ukraine
Russia
Cash
Never
New
Nor
Falsely
Governments
Times
Reported
York
Done
New York
New York Times
Payment
Received
Faith is not a product of reflection, nor is it even an attempt to penetrate the depths of my own being.
Pope Benedict XVI
Faith
Reflection
Own
Penetrate
My Own
Attempt
Nor
Being
Depths
Product
Even
Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.
Robert Benchley
Argument
Party
Fall
Neither
About
Fact
Somewhat
Most
Knows
Talking
Am
Opponent
Nor
Impressive
Owing
Short
Being
Which
Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.
Robert Frost
Life
You
Together
Master
Speed
Once
Oar
Wing
Only
Parted
Another
Nor
Cannot
Swept
Agreed
Away
Two
You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can do by these and what you have done. You can make hypocrites by the million.
Robert Green Ingersoll
You
Change
Will
Tell
Torture
Hypocrites
Make
Conclusion
Nor
Brain
Done
Cannot
Social
Million
Ostracism
No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God.
Roger Williams
God
Man
State
Spirit
Shall
Prophesy
Inspiration
Witnesses
Go
Nor
Truly
Antichrist
Gracious
Did
Nations
Against
Convert
Forth
Holy
Holy Spirit
Ever
Present
What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
Susan B. Anthony
You
Rights
Atheist
Christian
Our
Say
Neither
More
Outsiders
Nor
Than
Should
Less
Association
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
Tacitus
Truth
Angry
Freedom
Fear
Cause
Apt
Must
Habit
Perfect
Perfect Freedom
Allowed
He
Sincerity
Does
Hear
Nor
Hears
Wonder
Expected
Any
Anyone
Speaking
Who
There is an insuperable problem about introducing immigrants to British values. There are no British values. Nor are there any Serbian or Peruvian values. No nation has a monopoly on fairness and decency, justice and humanity.
Terry Eagleton
Justice
Humanity
Problem
Values
Nation
Decency
Monopoly
Immigrants
Introducing
About
Fairness
Nor
Any
British
Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often.
William Cavendish
Work
Time
Strength
You
Ride
Weary
Half
Before
Whatever
Lesson
Extremity
Above
Take
Never
He
Never Take
Come
Him
Gentle
Till
His
Nor
Often
Little
Means
Use
God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.
William Lyon Phelps
God
Me
Man
Son
Language
Ocean
Stars
Earthquake
Sight
Imperfect
Through
Thunder
Nor
Hearing
Speaks
Adapted
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
William Penn
Good
Reward
Paradise
Neither
Seeks
Both
He
Sure
Does
Sake
Nor
End
In The End
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
E. B. White
Good
Man
Sense
Nothing
More
Nor
Than
Handy
Farmer
Less
I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
A. R. Ammons
You
Man
Past
Other
Recognised
Tell
Telling
Poem
Purpose
Go
Nor
Any
Where
Burning
Reason
I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
Aaron Sorkin
Neither
Nor
And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.
Adam Clarke
Man
Experience
Seen
Eye
Must
Spirit
He
Invisible
Principle
Nor
Contradictory
Any
Cannot
Reason
Hence
Thing
God's role in superintending our world and our lives is neither absentee landlord nor micromanager.
Adam Hamilton
God
World
Our
Our Lives
Our World
Neither
Nor
Role
Landlord
Lives
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