Quotes 1841 till 1860 of 2981.
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One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.
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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, ''Well, I'll have a go, too.''
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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
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One person is never as stupid as a group of people. That's why they have lynch mobs, not lynch individuals.
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One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
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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 should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
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One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.
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One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.
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One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
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One should never underestimate the power of books.
Source: The Brooklyn Follies (2008) 139 -
One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.
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One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.
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One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,
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One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.
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One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
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One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
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Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is....never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.
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Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
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