Quotes with number-one

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• One man with courage makes a majority.

  Andrew Jackson
  American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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• One man's constant is another man's variable.

  Alan Perlis
  American computer scientist and professor (1922 - 1990)
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• One man's folly is often another man's wife.

  Helen Rowland
  American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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• One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

  Ogden Nash
  American poet (1902 - 1971)
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• One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.

  Harold Wilson
  British Labour politician (1916 - 1995)
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• One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

  Jean de la Bruyère
  French writer (1645 - 1696)
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• One match that really sticks out for me, there's a bunch of matches with all the guys that I worked with. For me, when I got in the ring, I approached it as being real because I was a real character. I didn't have a gimmick name; I didn't have a gimmick finish.

  Brock Lesnar
  American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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• One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

  Laurence Sterne
  British author (1713 - 1768)
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• One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

  Mrs. Humphrey Ward
   
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• One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

  Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
  French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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• One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

  Henry David Thoreau
  American writer (1817 - 1862)
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• One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.

  Vincent Van Gogh
  Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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• One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

  Pedro Calderón de la Barca
  Spanish playwright (1600 - 1681)
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• One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

  Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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• One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

  Kahlil Gibran
  Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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• One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

  Arthur Koestler
  Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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• One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.

  Anne Hutchinson
  American religious reformer and activist
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• One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• contradiction
• metaphysical
• respectable
• accompanies
• opposition
• prejudices

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