- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only Quotes
On narrowed choices and the one option that remains.
The word 'only' frames very different ideas here: a single film genre praised for its originality, a physicist's account of shifting foundations, and a stated view on Cold War-era power struggles across Europe. For more, see our Life quotes.
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- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do have faith. I don't have faith that a God exists, nor do I have faith that one does not; I have absolute faith that I do not know, cannot know, am only human, am an infinitesimal creature packed onto a cramped planet crowded with seven billion bodies, and as many yearning hearts, and as many questioning minds.
- Broader
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- Nov 07, 2020
The broader the topic, the easier it is, not only to fill a book, but to set the bar pretty high for really great stuff.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like, and the fact that she developed profound deafness when she was first running the Harriet Lane.
- Present
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- Nov 07, 2020
The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.
- Nov 07, 2020
Only ugliness is obscene.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.
- Those
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.
- Create
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- Nov 07, 2020
The last thing I would want to do is to create the impression that sectarianism came from only one side of the community.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020