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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
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Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.
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Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist - a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist - only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.
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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, ''What will you have, sir?'' And I said, ''A glass of hemlock.''
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Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities . To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.
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Only presidents, editors and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial 'we'.
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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family - but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
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Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
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Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
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Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.
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Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
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Opening a family-style restaurant with comfort food like mac 'n' cheese, ribs and burgers has always been my dream.
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Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
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Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.
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