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The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
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The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.
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The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
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The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.
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The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. There is no other way.
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The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.
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The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.
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The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present - henceforth? - the subject to which you are condemned.
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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
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The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
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The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
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The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
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The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
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The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
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The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.
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The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit; their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.
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