Quotes with single-minded

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  • Brendan Myers The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Campbell Newman The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.
    Campbell Newman
    Australian politician (1963 - )
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  • Bill Bennett The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.
    Bill Bennett
    Canadian politician (1932 - 2015)
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  • Wes Smith The chief beneficiary of life insurance policies for young, single people is the life insurance agent.
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  • Bryan Magee The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.
    Bryan Magee
    British philosopher, broadcaster, politician (1930 - 2019)
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  • Carlton Cuse The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders The Department of Defense, the largest single energy consumer in America, is bullish on solar.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Lord George Byron The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • John Morley The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Warren Wiersbe The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita The fact that we see some people doing what appears to be good civic-minded deeds may be because that is their true intention, and it may be that that is their best way to hold onto power in a setting where they have to depend on a lot of people.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Bryce Harper The full thing is God-given. I don't know how I got my swing or what I did. I know I worked every single day. I know I did as much as I could with my dad. But I never really looked at anything mechanical. There was nothing really like, 'Oh, put your hands here.' It was, 'Where are you comfortable? You're comfortable here; hit from there.'
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Barbara Cartland The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Robert Collier The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Emma Goldman The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Bill Viola The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Candace Bushnell The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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