“Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.”

— Margaret Mead

As quoted in Margaret Mead: A Life (1984) by Jane Howard; cited in Journey Through Womanhood : Meditations from Our Collective Soul (2002) by Tian Dayton, p. 46
1980s

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American anthropologist 1901–1978

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This doesn't amuse me.
Neither does it frighten me.”

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This doesn't amuse me.
Neither does it frighten me. After the rain, I went back into the field of sunflowers.
It was cool, and I was anything but drowsy.
I walked slowly, and listened to the crazy roots, in the drenched earth, laughing and growing.

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Peter Singer (1946) Australian philosopher

Afterword To The 2011 Edition, p. 187
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“Forgiveness of the sin of abortion does not mean the Church condones abortion, neither does it minimise its grave effects.”

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“This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It’s a place that does not exist.”

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Source: Ocean Sea

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Note to Stanza 29 part 4
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Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 53

“One swallow does not make a summer,
neither does one fine day;
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Aristotle book Nicomachean Ethics

Source: The Nicomachean Ethics

“The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of: the last he does not concern himself about.”

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No. 112
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“Arrow’s general impossibility theorem does not disprove the existence of the Bergsonian social welfare function, neither does it disprove the existence of the Benthamite hedonistic function.”

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Kotaro Suzumura, An interview with Paul Samuelson: welfare economics,“old” and “new”, and social choice theory (2005)
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