Quotes with single-minded

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  • Ahmed Ben Bella Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Jo Coudert You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.
    Jo Coudert
    American author
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  • Cate Blanchett You do not want to be in a creative organisation with everybody being like-minded and stroking each other's creative egos. You want differences of opinion... constructively.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • An Wang You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
    An Wang
    Chinese–American computer engineer and inventor (1920 - 1990)
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  • Bill Clinton You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That's a good-looking mummy.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Mark Twain You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Barbara Hall You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.
    A Summons to New Orleans
    Barbara Hall
    American television writer and producer (1960 - )
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  • Bipasha Basu You're born single, you die single, but why not being in a relationship is some special 'single' status, I don't understand. Life is less stress being single, I have to admit.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • Curtis Carlson You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.
    Curtis Carlson
    American businessman and technologist (1945 - )
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  • William Shakespeare 'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • E. F. Schumacher An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
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  • George Eliot For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces -a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Alfred Jodl It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.
    Alfred Jodl
    German general and war criminal (1890 - 1946)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Bill Dedman The entire federal budget for landslide research is $3.5 million a year - far less than the property value lost on a single day when 17 mansions slid down a hill in 2005 in Laguna Beach, Calif.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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