Quotes with one-seventh

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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Myriam Miedzian To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.
    Myriam Miedzian
    American philosopher and author
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  • Albert Camus To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Ernest Renan To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • Don Piatt To be great one must be positive and gain strength from your opponents.
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  • William Shakespeare To be honest, as this world goes, is to be. One man picked out of ten thousand.
    Hamlet 2,2
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Bono To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • George Washington To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • John Updike To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Benjamin Franklin To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Leszczynski Stanislaus To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it.
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  • Mark Van Doren To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.
    Mark Van Doren
    American poet, writer and critic (1894 - 1972)
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  • André Maurois To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Jane Harrison To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.
    Jane Harrison
    British classical scholar and linguist
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  • Oscar Wilde To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • James Allen To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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