Quotes 14101 till 14120 of 25137.
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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
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One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.
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One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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One wonders what exactly Israel did to earn Arab enmity between 1948 and 1967, when Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip and Jordan controlled Judea and Samaria.
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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
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One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.
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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
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One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
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One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
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One-third of all professional baseball players come from Latin America, and Sosa is following role models such as the late Roberto Clemente, a Puerto Rican, from whom he adopted the No. 21. Now he is a model for others.
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Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
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Only a fraction of book learning will seep into practical life anyhow; and the more foolish the theory, the less of it.
Source: On War (1832) Ch. 23 -
Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
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Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.
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Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
Source: The Amis collection: selected non-fiction (1990)
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