Quotes 3181 till 3200 of 5418.
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Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.
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Once, many, many years ago, I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong.
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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.
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One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.
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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
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One has occasionally to pocket one’s pride and readjust one’s ideas.
Source: Death in the Clouds (1935) ch. 25 -
One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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One has to learn from history. Quite frankly, it is almost impossible to have a sense of vision without a sense of history. If history is learned, then it doesn't have to repeat itself over generations.
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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats -and one always secretes too much jelly.
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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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