Quotes with number-one

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  • George Orwell In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Frank Dane In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.
    Frank Dane
    British actor
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  • Plato In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Billy Bush In radio I had one, maybe two people who cared about getting it done. I'd really be a loser if I forgot where I came from. So I show them the love. And how hard is it really to be interested in someone's life?
    Billy Bush
    American radio and television host (1971 - )
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  • Beverley Mitchell In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.
    Beverley Mitchell
    American actress and singer (1981 - )
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  • Carla Bruni In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
    Carla Bruni
    Italian-French singer-songwriter (1967 - )
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  • B. H. Liddell Hart In reality, it is more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
    B. H. Liddell Hart
    British soldier and military historian (1895 - 1970)
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  • B. H. Liddell Hart In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
    B. H. Liddell Hart
    British soldier and military historian (1895 - 1970)
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  • Cass Sunstein In recent years, Republicans have argued that Congress is a more responsible policymaker than the executive branch. But when it comes to regulation, Congress is often much worse, and for just one reason: Executive agencies almost always focus on both costs and benefits, and Congress usually doesn't.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Beck In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool. On paper, though, it's all stripped back. The musical idea is the one that wins.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Franz Kafka In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Arthur Henderson In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • John Erksine In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes.
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Bill Cosby In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Simone Weil In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • William Randolph Hearst In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.
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  • Emma Goldman In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, ''until death doth part.''
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Baz Luhrmann In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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