Quotes with one-verse

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  • Albert Camus To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • George Bernard Shaw To be a champion you must live like one.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bill Rodgers To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime.
    Bill Rodgers
    American marathon athlete (1947 - )
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  • Havelock Ellis To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • William James To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Ernest Hemingway To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Olin Miller To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
    Olin Miller
    American businessman
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  • Og Mandino To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Leslie Fiedler To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.
    Leslie Fiedler
    American literary critic (1917 - 2003)
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  • Anatoly Karpov To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.
    Anatoly Karpov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1951 - 1951)
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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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