Quotes with one-seventh

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  • Carolyn Wells Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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  • George Moore After all there is but one race - humanity.
    George Moore
    Irish writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Joseph Brodsky After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Edith Wharton After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Rohinton Mistry After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.
    Een wankel evenwicht (2010) 758
    Rohinton Mistry
    Indian-born Canadian writer (1952 - )
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  • Babe Ruth After all, there's only one answer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: Pick out a good one and sock it!
    Babe Ruths Own Book of Baseball
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Aldous Huxley After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Nelson Mandela After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb
    Long way to freedom
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Bruce Willis After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Cato the Elder After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • James Baldwin After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So-Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • William S. Burroughs After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ''I WANT TO SEE THE MANAGER.''
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Bob Beauprez After several trillion dollars of stimulation by the Obama Administration and the Fed, one might think the economy would be chugging along at a pretty good clip. But, it just isn't so, and the light at the end of the tunnel is pretty dim. Just ask a small business owner.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Barbara Deming After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Graham Greene Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • George Burns Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Cary Grant Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.
    Cary Grant
    English-born American actor (1904 - 1986)
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  • Agatha Christie Ah, but it is incredible how often things force one to do the thing one would like to do.
    Death in the Clouds (1935)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Marquis de Sade Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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