Quotes with single-person

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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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  • Gore Vidal There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo - or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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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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  • Dale Carnegie There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Jane Austen There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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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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  • Angela Davis There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Walt Whitman There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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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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  • Henry Ward Beecher There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Lydia Davis There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.
    Lydia Davis
    American writer (1947 - )
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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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  • Joan Didion There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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