Quotes with english-only

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  • Walt Whitman Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • John F. Boyes Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
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  • Julius Kambarge Nyerere Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.
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  • Burt Rutan Virgin Galactic, which will be operating SpaceShipTwo, will be only one of several spacelines. The competitors for Virgin include the Russians, Bezos's Blue Origin, and possibly Rocketplane Kistler. And likely a couple of others who are smart enough not to tell people what they are doing!
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Bernard Williams Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to study classics and, unlike Cambridge, it had a philosophy component, and I became completely transported by it.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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  • John Henry Newman Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • William Cowper Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Warren Buffett Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Baron William Henry Beveridge Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
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  • George Orwell War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Thomas Hobbes War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Bertrand Russell War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bruce Jackson War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • George Orwell War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Anatole France War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Joan Didion Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Lou Gerstner Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.
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  • Henry David Thoreau Water is the only drink for a wise man.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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