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One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
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One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
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One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
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One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.
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One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
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One of the most feared expressions in modern times is ''The computer is down''
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One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
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One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.
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One saw I was alive. Loosened
his belt. My bowels opened in a ragged gape of fear.
Between the gap of corpses I could see a child.
The soldiers laughed. Only a matter of days separate
this from acts of torture now. They shot her in the eye.Standing Female Nude (1985) Shooting Stars -
One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.
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