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For, after all, this is what appears to me to be the result of that definition, the parts whereof when I consider with attention, either collectively or separate from each other, I do not find that there is any kind of effect or impression made on my mind different from what is excited by the term nothing.
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley 2006
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For, after all, this is what appears to me to be the result of that definition, the parts whereof when I consider with attention, either collectively or separate from each other, I do not find that there is any kind of effect or impression made on my mind different from what is excited by the term nothing.
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge George Berkeley 1719
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Ah! I shall have to go with you, boys, some day, and show you a few of the grand sights you pass over because they are so small, and which you call nothing.
Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore George Manville Fenn 1870
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When I asked my parents to tell me what I was, what I believed in, they responded with the word nothing.
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RICK SEANEY, CEO, FARECOMPARE. COM: Well in the short term nothing.
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RICK SEANEY, CEO, FARECOMPARE. COM: Well in the short term nothing.
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I believe i have found purpose for the word nothing.
lethalpickle Diary Entry lethalpickle 2001
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From morning to night Effie was busy, very busy, doing what she herself called nothing.
A Girl in Ten Thousand L. T. Meade 1884
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So if he wins, his presidency will be a big, one-term nothing.
Gateway Pundit 2008
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I love how when GW posts other fat chicks there's an uproar of "nasty fat whore" etc ... but this one calls nothing.
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