Quotes 14281 till 14300 of 25371.
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Only a fraction of book learning will seep into practical life anyhow; and the more foolish the theory, the less of it.
Source: On War (1832) Ch. 23 -
Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
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Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.
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Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
Source: The Amis collection: selected non-fiction (1990) -
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed
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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
― Bernard M. Baruch
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Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized ac
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Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.
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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause, it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.
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Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.
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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.
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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 in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
Source: Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million (2014) 42 -
Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
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