- Matter
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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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- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.
- Cordial
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good manners are cost effective. They not only increase the quality of life in the workplace, they contribute to employee morale, embellish the company image, and play a major role in generating profit.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are evolutionary descendents of this marvellous panoply of life. And what that says unequivocally is we have an utter total obligation to make sure we have an environment that not only is good for us but is good for all living organisms.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
- Finished
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
- Gain
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- Nov 07, 2020
How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020