- Budgetary
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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
- Court Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Magna Carta is widely known to be one of the foundational documents for our Constitution. I can only imagine that a mention of that in a court decision would be forbidden by our friends on the right.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was too old to be a punk rocker. I was a mod, that's really the only youth tribe I ever belonged to - and even then, not for very long.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the stuff that I say doesn't even make TV because it gets cut out. So if you're at the live events you get to hear what I have to say, but if you're watching on TV, you're only getting about 50% of it.
- Nov 07, 2020
In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
- Portrait
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are discovering what the universe is really like, and it is totally magnificent, and one can only be inspired and awestruck by what we find.
- Reason
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.
- Exist
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- Nov 07, 2020
To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Union next to our liberties the most dear. May we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of the States, and distributing equally the benefits and burdens of the Union.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a universal and fundamental political principle that the power to protect can safely be confided only to those interested in protecting, or their responsible agents - a maxim not less true in private than in public affairs.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was no measure that required greater caution or more severe scrutiny than one to impose taxes or raise a loan, be the form what it may. I hold that government has no right to do either, except when the public service makes it imperiously necessary, and then only to the extent that it requires.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020