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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
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One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
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One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child.
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One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
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One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
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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 walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
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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 enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
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One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
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One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.
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One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude.
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One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
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One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.
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One of the hardest decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.
Source: Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
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