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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.
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One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
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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.
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One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
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One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
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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 -
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
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One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
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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.
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One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.
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One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.
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One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.
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One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.
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