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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
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The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.
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The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase the speed with which we get alternative technologies to deal with climate change.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
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The only thing that's changed is the competitiveness of the series. It's only become harder to win in our series as the years have gone by. Competition breeds good things, and that's what's happened here.
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
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The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.
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The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
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The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
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The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.
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The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.
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The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.
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The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science and imposture is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
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The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).
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