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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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• People have a right to change their minds and it has absolutely nothing to do with you. People change. As people change, their needs change. When people have a need, it is their responsibility to themselves to see their needs are met. And it has absolutely nothing to do with you.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Responsibility, People, Mind

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Nov 02, 2014

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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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• The pleasure of eating something because it is expensive has absolutely nothing to do with the taste of good cuisine.

  Marcel Boulestin

  Taste, Cuisine, Eating

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• Nature has been taken over by thugs who care absolutely nothing about it. We need to take nature back.

  Richard Louv

  Taken, Thug, Who Cares

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.118, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

  Dennis Farina

  Reality, Long, Entertainment

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• I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. I did absolutely nothing.

  William S. Burroughs

  Taken, Years, Clothes

  "Naked Lunch". Book by William S. Burroughs, 1959.

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• When people tell you who they are, Maya Angelou famously advised, believe them. Just as importantly, however, when people try to tell you who you are, don’t believe them. You are the only custodian of your own integrity, and the assumptions made by those that misunderstand who you are and what you stand for reveal a great deal about them and absolutely nothing about you.

  Maria Popova

  Integrity, Believe, People

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• Well, I thought, climbing slowly out of the slit trench, the shells will catch us above ground now. But if you have to go, you have to go. F Company’s in trouble, and we have to help them. We’re in reserve, so we have to go. And if we’re shelled, we’re shelled. There is absolutely nothing we can do about it.

  David Kenyon Webster

  Climbing, Shells, Helping

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• Homesickness is . . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. . . . You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find.

  John Cheever

  Country, Time, Long

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• There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Personality, Miracle, Oscars

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• There is absolutely nothing wrong with the responsible use of marijuana by adults and it should be of no interest or concern to the government. They have no business knowing whether we smoke or why we smoke.

  Keith Stroup

  Marijuana, Government, Knowing

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• I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting.

  Rick Wakeman

  Garden, Cities, Annoyed

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• Let's face it, gossip is one of the world's most destructive habits, and we're exposed to it practically everywhere we go and in much that we see - work, recreation, sports, home, in magazines, on television.  There is absolutely nothing beneficial about gossip - it hurts everyone involved

  Lori Palatnik

  Sports, Hurt, Home

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• I know absolutely nothing about music.

  Richard Wagner

  Music, Knows

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• One of the best rules anybody can learn about investing is to do nothing, absolutely nothing, unless there is something to do. Most people – not that I’m better than most people – always have to be playing; they always have to be doing something. They make a big play and say, “Boy, am I smart, I just tripled my money.” Then they rush out and have to do something else with that money. They can’t just sit there and wait for something new to develop

  Jim Rogers

  Smart, Boys, Play

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• In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols dragging their bellies across the dead page, suffocated signs full of muffled sound and faded glory, signifying absolutely nothing. And it is the nothing, the Mystery, the Emptiness alone that needs to be realized: not known but felt, not thought but breathed, not an object but an atmosphere, not a lesson but a life.

  Ken Wilber

  Lying, Book, Reality

  Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.141, Shambhala Publications

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• Hitler had an unprecedented opportunity, such as no man will ever again be offered so easily, to create something entirely new. However, besides the fact that he knows absolutely nothing about matters economic, he cannot even fully understand his economic advisers. . . . His constant worry has ever been to keep himself in power. . . . He believes that he alone is a great man, and all others non-entities.

  Fritz Thyssen

  Believe, Opportunity, Men

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• Coming from having absolutely nothing to having a few grand in the bank, it was a big culture leap. I think that's why I went off the rails a bit really, 'cause there was no training for it. They didn't do fame in schools.

  Craig Charles

  School, Thinking, Training

  "Decca Aitkenhead meets Craig Charles". www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2009.

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• Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they appear to the rest of the world! They should listen to someone else's version of themselves--to anyone else's version! Every country knows more about America than Americans know about themselves! And Americans know absolutely nothing about any other country!

  John Irving

  Country, Years, Two

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• I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dog, War, Philosophical

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian”, p.16, Seven Stories Press

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• You can say a lot of bad things about Tiny Cooper. I know, because I have said them. But for a guy who knows absolutely nothing about how to conduct his own relationships, Tiny Cooper is kind of brilliant when it comes to dealing with other people's heartbreak. Tiny is like some gigantic sponge soaking up the pain of lost love everywhere he goes.

  John Green

  Pain, Lost Love, People

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.81, Penguin

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• I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes to ordinary conversation, such as the stuff you talk about financiers and the money market, well, I find it pretty tiresome personally, and I feel sorry that my friends should think they're being very busy when they're really doing absolutely nothing. Of course, I know your idea of me: you think I'm just a poor unfortunate, and I shouldn't wonder if your right. But then I dont THINK that you're unfortunate - I know you are.

  Plato

  Sorry, Philosophy, Thinking

  Plato (2013). “Plato - Dialogues”, p.29, Read Books Ltd

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• If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.

  Roland Joffe

  Football, Ideas, Popcorn

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• So what’s it like to live without emotions? (Geary) It’s hard. Imagine a world without taste. A world where you can see the colors and all, but you can’t feel it. A beautiful clear day can never choke you up. A child’s laughter doesn’t make you smile. You don’t look at a bunny and think ‘how cute.’ You feel absolutely nothing. It’s like being wrapped in thick cotton all the time. (Arik)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Cute, Beautiful, Laughter

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “The Dream-Hunter”, p.232, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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