Quotes 3041 till 3060 of 5905.
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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
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One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
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One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
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One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.
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One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.
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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
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One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay ''in kind'' somewhere else in life.
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
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One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.
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One can not really argue with a mathematical theorem.
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One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.
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One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death.
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One can understand a person by the way he removes his wallet and puts his hand to take out money.
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One can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
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