Quotes 3601 till 3620 of 5912.
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Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist - a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist - only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.
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Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.
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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men - the other 999 follow women.
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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, ''What will you have, sir?'' And I said, ''A glass of hemlock.''
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Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma -
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
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Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities . To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.
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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
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Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
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Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
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Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
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Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one consider that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
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