Quotes with single-minded

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  • Bill Gates The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Aharon Appelfeld The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
    Aharon Appelfeld
    Israeli writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • C. Everett Koop There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • A. Bartlett Giamatti There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
    A. Bartlett Giamatti
    American professor and president of Yale University (1938 - 1989)
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  • William James There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Isaac Asimov There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • Arthur Erickson There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics - none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot There is no single rule that governs the use of geometry. I don't think that one exists.
    New Scientist interview
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Bob Geldof There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • John Frederick Boyes There is scarcely a man who is not conscious of the benefits which his own mind has received from the performance of single acts of benevolence. How strange that so few of us try a course of the same medicine!
    John Frederick Boyes
    English scholar of classics (1811 - 1879)
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  • Carl Van Vechten There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.
    Carl Van Vechten
    American writer and photographer (1880 - 1964)
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  • Mark Twain There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as ''American.''
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bruce Bennett There was only a single sharpshooter up in the trees to keep the croc away from me.
    Bruce Bennett
    American actor (1906 - 2007)
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  • Bill Burr There's a critical point, when you've stayed single too long, that your brain switches from No, don't say that to Eh, fuck it. Say it, see what happens.
    Why Do I Do This?
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Barry Sternlicht There's more single-family homes rented in the United States then there are apartments.
    Barry Sternlicht
    billionaire and the (1960 - )
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  • Brantley Gilbert There's nothing like having somebody that loves every single bit of you, and that you love the same way, to actually, really share it with.
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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