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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind us much debris of cast-off and everyday clothing.
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How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty,
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How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
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However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
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I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.
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I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't you won t.
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I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.
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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.
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I think there are only three things America will be known for 2, 000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music and baseball.
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
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If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.
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If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.
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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
Ann Druyan (2011) 354 -
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
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