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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since 2006, we have surpassed Alaska, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and California in oil production to become the second largest oil-producing state in the nation, trailing only Texas. In 2012, North Dakota produced more than 245 million barrels of oil and provided nearly 11 percent of all U.S. output.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like the term 'global warming,' because it's misleading. It implies something that's mainly about temperature, that's gradual, and that's uniform across the planet. And in fact, temperature is only one of the things that's changing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is our common experience as human beings that the results of social forces seem to admit only of 'probabilistic' predictions.
- Forgetting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always thought a novelist only has one character, and that is himself or herself. In my case, me.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never one for multi-cameras; my approach was always... I always considered there was only one place to be to do a shot.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, the only acts that came to us in Alaska were the big ones. The Mariah Careys.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
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- Nov 07, 2020