Quotes 3201 till 3220 of 6179.
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One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive.
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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
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One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
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One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
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One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.
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One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.
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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
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One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay ''in kind'' somewhere else in life.
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
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One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.
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One can not really argue with a mathematical theorem.
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One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.
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One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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