nolo contendere:
A legal term meaning: "I didn't do it, judge, and I'll never do
it again."
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nominal egg:
New Yorkerese for expensive.
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Noncombatant:
A dead Quaker.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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Non-Determinism is not meant to be reasonable.
-- M.J. 0'Donnell
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Nondeterminism means never having to say you are wrong.
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None love the bearer of bad news.
-- Sophocles
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None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary
to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert -- because no one
ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a
job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing
forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient
he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a
state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the
"expert" state of mind a great number of things become impossible.
-- From Henry Ford Sr., "My Life and Work"
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Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it.
-- Heisenberg
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
-- E.M. Forster