Quotes with number-one

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  • Elbert Hubbard The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Ellen Hubbard The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Samuel Johnson The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Baruch Spinoza The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Mychal Wynn The greatest quest in life is to reach one's potential.
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  • William James The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Louise Erdrich The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
    Liefdesmedicijn (2010) 66
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Konstantin Stanislavisky The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it
    Konstantin Stanislavisky
    Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher (1863 - 1938)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, ''Let no one be called happy till his death;'' to which I would add, ''Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.''
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Agatha Christie The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Lucian The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Al Gore The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell The height of the pedestals of the statues we erect to our national heroes is mostly proportional to the number of people they killed.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Felix Adler The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
    Felix Adler
    German American professor of political and social ethics (1851 - 1933)
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  • Bob Newhart The highest of highs is to have a new routine that you're just breaking in and that's working, and that's - you're one step removed doing a situation comedy because you have a live audience there.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Richard Cecil The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.
    Richard Cecil
    British Evangelical Anglican priest (1748 - 1810)
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  • Roger Von Oech The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
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