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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
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One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
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One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
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One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
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One-third of all professional baseball players come from Latin America, and Sosa is following role models such as the late Roberto Clemente, a Puerto Rican, from whom he adopted the No. 21. Now he is a model for others.
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Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
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Only a fraction of book learning will seep into practical life anyhow; and the more foolish the theory, the less of it.
Source: On War (1832) Ch. 23 -
Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
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Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.
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Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
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Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed
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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
― Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized ac
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