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If we say the purpose of life is our children, that's neither a purpose nor a meaning. But I'm sure I will be as besotted as everybody else when I have them.
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I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither 'good' or 'bad', and who knows neither love nor hatred.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.


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Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.


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Virtuality - connection without proximity - is a major attraction in both fandom and the Net. Nobody knows you're a dog through the U.S. mail, either. Fans could be utterly different in their fanzine persona, which may be why both fandom and the Net were invented by individualistic Americans.
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Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
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Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.


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Andrew Johnson
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You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.
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Facts are neither Republican nor Democrat.


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Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.


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I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country.
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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.
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Robert Green Ingersoll