Quotes 5721 till 5740 of 10005.
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One has occasionally to pocket one’s pride and readjust one’s ideas.
Death in the Clouds (1935) ch. 25 -
One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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One has to learn from history. Quite frankly, it is almost impossible to have a sense of vision without a sense of history. If history is learned, then it doesn't have to repeat itself over generations.
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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats -and one always secretes too much jelly.
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One hires lawyers as one hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.
The Question of Max Ch. 5 (1976) -
One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
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One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
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One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
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One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child.
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One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation
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One important lesson is this: It is okay to try and fail at something, but it isn't okay to not try. Parents need to encourage their kids, and it all starts in the home.
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One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.
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One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
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One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms.
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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
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One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
Lew Wallace
American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, territorial governor and statesman, politician, and author of (1827 - 1905)
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