Quotes with one-way

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  • Oscar Wilde What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Stokely Carmichael What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Alice James What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Dan Quayle What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
    Dan Quayle
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Lord George Byron What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bill Dedman What are the odds that a nuclear emergency like the one at Fukushima Dai-ichi could happen in the central or eastern United States? They'd have to be astronomical, right?
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Harold Rosenberg What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?
    Harold Rosenberg
    American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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  • Oscar Wilde What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carole Bouquet What bothers you isn't so much whether you're beautiful or not. What bothers you is the way that people stare.
    Carole Bouquet
    French actress and fashion (1957 - )
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  • Calvin Trillin What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Bill Veeck What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.
    Bill Veeck
    American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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  • Ben Parr What can we learn from the battle between data and design? What can we learn from the relationship between Google and Apple? Clearly no one school of thought is right: Apple and Google are both wildly successful and profitable companies that changed the world.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Elizabeth Bishop What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?
    Elizabeth Bishop
    American poet and short-story writer (1911 - 1979)
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  • Hermann Hesse What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men - each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature - are shot down wholesale.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • John Ruskin What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Mark Twain What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Elie Wiesel What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • O. Henry What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
    O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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