Quotes with one-pointed

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  • Dale Carnegie One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Virginia Woolf One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Finley Peter Dunne One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
    Finley Peter Dunne
    American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
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  • Mark Twain One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • John W. Foster One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
    John W. Foster
    American diplomat and military (1836 - 1917)
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  • Albert Einstein One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge One of the stupidest theories of Western life.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Benjamin Haydon One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • C. L. R. James One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Pauline Kael One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
    Pauline Kael
    American film critic (0 - 2001)
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  • Edgar W. Howe One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Bernard Crick One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the 'inner contradictions' of such a system.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 5, A Defence Of Politics Against Technology, p
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Bertrand Russell One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
    The Conquest of Happiness
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Arnold Glasgow One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
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  • Salman Rushdie One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Burgess Owens One of the things I did in my book, I start off with, is explaining how great our grace was: the things we were able to accomplish after the first one-hundred years from slavery.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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