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I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
Carl Friedrich Gauss

Human, Cannot, Coming

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.
Harold MacMillan

Government, Her, Duty

Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.
Julie Burchill

Bitter, Seems, Bridges

In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.
William Hague

Time, Same, System

I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.
William Peter Blatty

Rather, Read, Story

I'm neither sexy nor a star.
Wentworth Miller

Sexy, Star, Neither

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
Thomas Hobbes

Him, Law, Error

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
Thomas Hobbes

Men, Truth, Pleasure

The thing I want to really say is that I still mess up. I still go out there and say things on TV that I know the Lord is like, 'Sherri what are you doing?' but I know I can go back and get on my knees and say, 'Lord forgive me.' I know he will never leave me nor forsake me. The wonderful thing is He answers my prayers in spite of me.
Sherri Shepherd

Forgive, Wonderful, Leave

Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.
Samuel Rutherford

Life, God, Nothing

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
Anthony Trollope

Money, Position, Neither

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

Short, Fact, Fall

I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.
George Galloway

Money, War, Against

In terms of my Indianness, I try not to rely on it nor deny it. When it comes up organically in my writing, we can address it. About five years ago, we wrote this episode of 'The Office,' called 'Diwali,' which seemed like an organic way of using it.
Mindy Kaling

Writing, Try, Office

I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.
Beth Ditto

Life, Money, Ask

Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.
Sepp Blatter

Football, Greed, Cannot

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.
Queen Elizabeth II

Good, Smile, Kindness

Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Good, Money, Food

My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences.
James Buchan

Reality, Understand, Fashion

The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world.
James Buchan

Technology, Thought, Rest

I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.
A. N. Wilson

Boring, Here, Neither

Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
Oliver Goldsmith

Long, Here, Wants

Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.
Alan Cohen

Great, Yourself, Greatest

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
Jeremy Bentham

Time, Living, Hell

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.
David Cronenberg

Religion, History, Whole

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
Henrik Ibsen

Society, Less, Neither

Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11.
Charles Schumer

Both, Whether, President

I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Work, Guilty, Expressing

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.
William Ernest Henley

Chance, Head, Bloody

I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.
Elia Kazan

Small, Neither, Agreeable

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