Quotes 3481 till 3500 of 5921.
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One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
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One said of suicide, ''As long as one has brains one should not blow them out.'' And another answered, ''But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.''
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One saw I was alive. Loosened
his belt. My bowels opened in a ragged gape of fear.
Between the gap of corpses I could see a child.
The soldiers laughed. Only a matter of days separate
this from acts of torture now. They shot her in the eye.Source: Standing Female Nude (1985) Shooting Stars -
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
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One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.
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One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.
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One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.
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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
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One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.
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One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: and when one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.
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One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000)
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