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God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

—Paul Valéry

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God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

—Paul Valéry

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In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.

—Ellen DeGeneres

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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

—Anatole France

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I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

—Paul Fussell

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Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

—Floyd Dell

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Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. When you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?

—Dan Millman

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We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything.

—Jenny Han in It’s Not Summer Without You

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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

—Peter Drucker

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There is a well-worn adage that those who set out upon a great enterprise would do well to count the cost. I am not sure that this is always true. I think that some of the very greatest enterprises in this world have been carried out successfully simply because the people who undertook them did not count the cost; and I am much of the opinion that . . . the most instructive consideration for us is the cost of doing nothing.

—Thomas Henry Huxley

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To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.

—Milan Kundera

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Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished.

—Leslie Nielsen

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Nothing ever goes away.

—Barry Commoner

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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

—Leonardo da Vinci

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