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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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  • Ben Whishaw One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.
    Ben Whishaw
    English actor (1980 - )
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  • Adrian Cronauer 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.
    Adrian Cronauer
    American air force radio personality during Vietnam War (1938 - 2018)
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  • Abraham Pais 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.
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Anita Hill 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.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Bill Ford One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me.
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  • Bob Hoskins One of the things I've realised is that I am very simple. My wife asked me once if I loved her. I said: 'Look love, I'm a simple man. I love you. End of story.' But I guess you gotta keep saying it with women. I guess she needed reassurance.
    Bob Hoskins
    English actor (1942 - 2014)
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  • Benigno Aquino III One of the things my father taught me was you should not exclude those who are opposed to your ideas.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Bobby Flay One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Bill Williams One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an interesting story in under 28 pages is that we already agree on great chunks of typical superhero stories.
    Bill Williams
    American actor
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  • Branford Marsalis One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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