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Day by day natural science accumulates new riches† The true system of the World has been recognized, developed and perfected† Everything has been discussed and analyzed, or at least mentioned.

-Alembert,Jean le Rond d'
  Elements of Philosophy.

   But we mustn't go too far back†in anybody's life† Because if we do†then nobody is to blame for anything, and nothing matters, and everything is allowed.

-Amis, Martin Louis
  London Fields, ch.10.

Como te dec|¤a al principio, nadie hace nada y, naturalmente, soy yo,es elPresidente delaRep u¤ blica elque lo tiene que hacer todo, aunque salga como el cohetero. Con decir que si no fuera por m |¤ no existir|¤a la fortuna, ya que hasta de diosa ciega tengo que hacer en la loter|¤a. But, as I told you, nobody ever does a thing, and so naturally it is I, the President of the Republic, who has to do everything, and take all the blame as well.You might almost say that if it weren't for me Fortune wouldn't exist, as I have even to take the part of the blind goddess in the lottery.

-Asturias, Miguel AŁ   ngel
  El sen‹  or presidente ( The President,1963), pt.3, ch.37.

Thanks for tomorrow, thanks for last week, thanks for next Fridayöin fact thanks for everything except last night.

-Atkinson, Brooks
Reviewing Le Roy Bailey's Thanks for Tomorrow. Quoted in the NewYork Times,14  Jan1984.

   A place for everything and everything in its place.

-Beeton, Isabella Mary ne¤  e Mayson
The Book of Household Management, ch.2.

That which once united man Now drives him apart.We are not helpless Creatures crashing onwards irresistibly to doom. There is time for everything and time to choose For everything.We are that time, that choice. Everybody gets what he deserves.

-Bold, Alan
  'June1967 at Buchenwald'.

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

-Bradley, Francis Herbert
  Appearance and Reality, preface.

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know; and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

-Cary, (Arthur) Joyce Lunel
  Art and Reality, introduction.

  Love all God's creation, thewhole of it and every grainof sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's lights. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things.

-Doolittle,James Harold
^80  The Brothers Karamazov, bk.6, ch.3.

The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything.

-Dudek, Louis
Collected in Notebooks1960^1994 (1994).

Bubber was the first man I heard use the expression,'it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.' Everything, and I repeat, everything had to swing.

-Ellington, Duke (Edward Kennedy)
  Of trumpeter Bubber Miley.'The Most Essential Instrument', in Jazz Journal, Dec.

Todo se ha escrito, todo se ha dicho, todo se ha hecho, oyo¤   Dios que le dec|¤an y a u¤ n no hab|¤a creado el mundo, todav|¤a no hab|¤a nada.Tambie¤  n eso ya me lo han dicho, repuso quiza¤   desde la vieja, hendida Nada.Ycomenzo¤  . Everything has been written, everything has been said, everything has been made: that's what God heard before creating the world, when there was nothing yet. I have also heard that one, he may have answered from the old, split Nothingness. And then he began.

-Ferna¤ n dez, Macedonio
  Museo de la novela de la Eterna ('The Museum of Eternity's Novel'),'Pro¤  logo a la eternidad'.

What I'd really liketosayabout stardom isthat it gave me everything I never wanted.

-Gardner, Ava originally Lucy Johnson
  Ava: My Story.

The alcohol made the present enough, it held her in its golden hand, where past and future were comprehended, where nothing mattered, nothing was lost, where everything could be known and forgiven, where she herself could be whole at last.

-Gee, Maggie
  Lost Children, ch.35.

Alles Gescheite ist schon gedacht worden; man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal zu denken. Everything clever has been thought of before.We must try to think it again.

-Goethe,JohannWolfgang von
  Spru«  che in Prosa, Maximen und Reflexionen, pt.1.

Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.

-Gourmont, Re¤  my de
  Promenades philosophiques (translated by Glen S Burne, 1966).

There's time enough for everything in the Never-Never.

-Gunn,Jeannie known as Mrs Aeneas Gunn
  We of the Never-Never, ch.5.

So have I loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

-Hazlitt,William
Literary Remains (published1836),'My First  Acquaintance with Poets'.

To say nothing is out here isincorrect; tosay the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stoneand earth is closer to the truth.

-Heat-Moon,William Least originally  WilliamTrogdon
  Blue Highways:  A  Journey Into  America.

My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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