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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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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One man's constant is another man's variable.
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One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.
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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 think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
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One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.
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One of humanity's prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
Source: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can.
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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.
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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
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One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.
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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
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