Quotes with number-one

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Vance Havner It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alfred Adler It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Anatole Broyard It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Voltaire It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Benazir Bhutto It is one thing being able to contest an election and to give the people hope that I can be the next prime minister. It is a totally different situation where the people of Pakistan are told that the results are already taken and the leader of your choice is banned.
    As quoted in I never asked for power in The Guardian (15 August 2002)
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Arthur Eddington It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • C. Patmore It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.
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  • Madame Guizot It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that ;their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.
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  • Camille Pissarro It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.
    Camille Pissarro
    Danish-French Impressionist painter (1830 - 1903)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William James It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Berthold Auerbach It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • C. L. R. James It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Raymond Chandler It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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