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  • Benoit Mandelbrot For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.
    Lecture at the University of Maryland (March 2005)
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Lord Chesterfield For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Fanny Burney For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
    Fanny Burney
    English author (1752 - 1840)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Christina Rossetti For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.
    Christina Rossetti
    British poet (1830 - 1894)
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  • Eileen Stukane For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much - anticipated vacation.
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  • Betty Buckley For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • Bhagavad Gita For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Albert Claude For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Carmen Electra For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing.
    Carmen Electra
    American actress, model and singer (1972 - )
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  • Aeschylus For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Hubert Humphrey For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Sarah Bernhardt For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.
    Sarah Bernhardt
    French stage actress (0 - 1923)
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  • Carlos Alazraqui For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
    Carlos Alazraqui
    American stand-up comedian, actor and singer (1962 - )
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  • Bill Cosby For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions - largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Samuel Butler For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • George Eliot For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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