Quotes with number-one

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  • Anthony Robbins One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Bill Hybels One reason we stop praying or let our prayer lives fade is that we are too comfortable.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Jean de la Fontaine One returns to the place one came from.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Will Rogers One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Francis H. Bradley One said of suicide, ''As long as one has brains one should not blow them out.'' And another answered, ''But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.''
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy One saw I was alive. Loosened
    his belt. My bowels opened in a ragged gape of fear.
    Between the gap of corpses I could see a child.
    The soldiers laughed. Only a matter of days separate
    this from acts of torture now. They shot her in the eye.
    Standing Female Nude (1985) Shooting Stars
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Alexander Pope One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • James C. Humes One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
    James C. Humes
    American author and former presidential speechwriter (1934 - )
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  • Claude M. Bristol One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.
    Claude M. Bristol
    American writer
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  • Jean de la Bruyère One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Aldous Huxley One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • William Hazlitt One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • I Ching One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.
    I Ching
    Chinese classical text (Book of Changes)
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  • Oscar Wilde One should always be a little improbable
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Lord Chesterfield One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: and when one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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