Quotes with number-one

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  • Eleanor Roosevelt One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Muriel Spark One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.
    Muriel Spark
    British writer (1918 - 2006)
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  • Oscar Wilde One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bo Bennett One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.
    Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Aaron McGruder One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
    Aaron McGruder
    American writer, lecturer and producer (1974 - )
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  • Ben Zobrist One-hundred years from now, nobody's going to remember that I played for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays - nobody!
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Bill Dedman One-third of all professional baseball players come from Latin America, and Sosa is following role models such as the late Roberto Clemente, a Puerto Rican, from whom he adopted the No. 21. Now he is a model for others.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Kingsley Amis Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
    The Amis collection: selected non-fiction (1990)
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Carol Burnett Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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  • Elizabeth Bowen Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • E. M. Cioran Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist - a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist - only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Elie Wiesel Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Groucho Marx Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men - the other 999 follow women.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, ''What will you have, sir?'' And I said, ''A glass of hemlock.''
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Aldous Huxley Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bodhidharma Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
    The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Greg Anderson Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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  • Germaine Greer Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities . To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Henry Ford Only one thing makes prosperity, and that is work.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Grace Speare Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
    Grace Speare
    American author (1927 - )
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