Quotes with number-one

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  • Maya Angelou Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Henry Clay Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
    Henry Clay
    American lawyer, planter, and statesman (1777 - 1852)
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  • Anatole France Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Ben Shahn Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Francoise Sagan Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
    Francoise Sagan
    French writer (1935 - 2004)
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  • Oscar Wilde Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.
    Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Abraham Pais Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?.
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Vikram Seth Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
    Een geschikte jongen (1993) 609
    Vikram Seth
    Indian novelist and poet (1952 - )
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  • Terence Of my friends I am the only one left.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • George Orwell Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo Of that freedom [freedom of thought and speech] one may say that it is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
    Palko v. Connecticut
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Alfred Noyes Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John.
    Alfred Noyes
    English poet, short-story writer and playwright (1880 - 1958)
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  • Harlan Miller Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
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  • Maxwell Maltz Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Pablo Picasso Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Arthur Eddington Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Oscar Wilde Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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