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The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.
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The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.
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The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
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The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.
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The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.
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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
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The only ones who can free us are ourselves.
Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 267 -
The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.
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The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can't worry about that.
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The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert, and so on.
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The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.
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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.
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The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
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The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the future.
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