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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
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In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
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In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.
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Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.
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Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
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It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
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It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
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It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
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It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are.
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Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
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Life is an incurable condition: the only known treatment is to try to keep the patient comfortable.
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Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules.
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.
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Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
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Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
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Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
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Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals.
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Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.
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