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Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
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Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.
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Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
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Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth walked as he did, but the honest man that he was - nobody any longer wanted to be that.
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Once you are really challenged, you find something in yourself. Man doesn't know what he is capable of until he is asked.
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One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.
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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 book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive.
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One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
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One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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One definition of man is ''an intelligence served by organs.''
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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be ''happy'' is not included in the plan of ''Creation.''
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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 learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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