Quotes with one-point-zero-five

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  • John Keats The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Bernard Mandeville The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Hervey Allen The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
    Hervey Allen
    American author (1889 - 1949)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The only way to have a friend is to be one.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Katherine Mansfield The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives whith another who shares the same books.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • James Baldwin The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Al Sharpton The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Voltaire The public is a ferocious beast. One must either chain it up or flee from it.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Edward Hoagland The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Katherine Anne Porter The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own -even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • James Newman The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Sir Matthew Hale The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
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  • Booker T. Washington There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Brian Moore There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.
    Brian Moore
    British writer and screenwiter (1921 - 1999)
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  • Eric Hoffer There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • William James There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Nelson Mandela There is no passion to be found in playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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