Quotes 5981 till 6000 of 6069.
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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
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I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.
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If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.
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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
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If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.
Epigrams (1911) p.353 -
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
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Interpreter: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
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Irreligion. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
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It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
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It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side ;of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
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Liberty: One of imagination's most precious possessions.
The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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My wife and I were on our honeymoon in Turks and Caicos, in the middle of nowhere, and I'm sitting on this deserted beach, and I see one lone person walking along the shore. He walks right up to me and says, 'I love 'Laser Cats,' and then just walks away.
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Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.
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No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.
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