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  • Grace Speare Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
    Grace Speare
    American author (1927 - )
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  • George Eliot Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • T. S. Eliot Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Evelyn Waugh Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Clark Kenneth Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Walter Benjamin Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Thomas Mann Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • André Malraux Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Woody Allen Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one consider that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • John Stuart Mill Originaliteit is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • John Stuart Mill Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Bruce Catton Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Katherine Anne Porter Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • H. Jackson Brown Jr Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
    H. Jackson Brown Jr
    American author (1940 - 2021)
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  • Thomas Paine Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS - our inferior one varies with the place.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Bill McKibben Our criteria is that it's okay to invest in companies so long as they stop lobbying in Washington, stop exploring for new hydrocarbons, and sit down with every one else to plan to keep 80 percent of the reserves in the ground.
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Blair Underwood Our deal always was that we did one as scripted always, we got it like we thought we needed - so we were all happy with it as written. Then I'd let him play as long as we had time.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Vauvenargues Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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