Quotes with number-one

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  • Maria Weston Chapman Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
    Maria Weston Chapman
    American abolitionist (1806 - 1885)
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  • Djuna Barnes Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations.
    Djuna Barnes
    American writer and artist (1892 - 1982)
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  • Samuel Johnson Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Albert Einstein Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bing Gordon Smart people tend to enjoy thinking about a lot of things at once. I'd say entrepreneurs should be serial monogamists; do one thing at a time until you make sufficient progress and then move on.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • Brit Marling So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Barry McCaffrey So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
    Barry McCaffrey
    American Army officer, professor and business consultant (1942 - )
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  • Ben Vereen So be encouraged and dedicate yourself to your dream and if your dream should come my way one day then we will dance upon the boards of life.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
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    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Samuel Johnson So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Andrew Grove So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
    Andrew Grove
    Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author (1936 - 2016)
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  • Bono So I humbly accept the honor, keeping in mind the words of a British playwright, John Mortimer it was, No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense and relatively clean fingernails. Well at best I've got one of the two of those.
    PENN Address (2004)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Brian De Palma So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.
    Brian De Palma
    American film director and screenwriter (1940 - )
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski So I think that is one of the reasons we can face some regional problems, which are very difficult, very dramatic and is necessary to have instruments to solve these problems. NATO is such instrument.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Aaron Neville So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.
    Aaron Neville
    American soul and country singer (1941 - )
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  • Bob Dylan So if you're travelin' in the north country fair,
    Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline,
    Remember me to one who lives there.
    She once was a true love of mine.
    The Freewheelin Bob Dylan (1963)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Aristotle So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Benjamin Franklin So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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