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  • Camille Paglia No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given instant credence by gay activists and their media partisans. I think what gay men are remembering is that they were born different.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Claudius No one is free who does not lord over himself.
    Claudius
    Roman emperor (10 - 54)
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  • Barbara de Angelis No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • John Mason Brown No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.
    John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Cyril Connolly No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Bill Murray No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, “This is what is expected of you. But… I’m lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role… I love being with people.”
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  • Buddha No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Alexander Pope No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Heraclitus No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
    Heraclitus
    Greek philosopher (540 - 480)
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  • Nelson Mandela No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.
    Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Phillips Brooks No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.
    The Rules of Attraction (2010) 203
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Samuel Johnson No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Edward Dahlberg No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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