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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
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The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.
Source: Rick Moody (2007) 284 -
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
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The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.
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The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. There is no other way.
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The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.
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The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
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The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
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The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
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The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
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The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
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The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
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The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
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The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.
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The original 'Star Trek' series is the classic one. Its successor, 'The Next Generation,' is less lovable, but at its best, it's smarter.
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The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.
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