Quotes with single-mindedness

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  • Lord George Byron The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • C. S. Lewis The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bill Flores The single best indicator of whether or not a child is going to be in poverty or not is whether or not they were raised by a two-parent household or a single parent household.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Bobby Rush The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son.
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  • Douglas Adams The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Jean Dubuffet The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.
    Jean Dubuffet
    French artist (1901 - 1985)
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  • Gloria Steinem The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Karl Marx The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Abu Sa'id The true saint goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moments.
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  • Walt Whitman The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Boris Kodjoe The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • Casey Wilson The woman I'd want to meet the most is Nicole Holofcener. I've loved every single film she's done. I think her films are deeply comedic while being deeply disturbing and dark.
    Casey Wilson
    American actress, comedian, and screenwriter (1980 - )
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  • Bill Clinton The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry.
    at Rosa Parks funeral, CNN.com, 11-02-05
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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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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  • 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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  • Lord Acton There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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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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