- England
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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
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli.
- Electromagnetic
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- Nov 07, 2020
For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life.
- Causal
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- Nov 07, 2020
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.
- Nov 07, 2020
If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We shot 'Dharma & Greg' six blocks from my house for five years. I had a Dodge Durango that I sold after five years, and it only had like 12,000 miles on it. My whole life was within eight square blocks of my house. There was a golf course across the street. In my downtime, I was on the driving range.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
We only want autonomous collaborators that are incentivized to make or break their own income.
- Diet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human diet, for millions of years, did not contain any added salt - only the sodium present in natural foods, adding up to only about 1000 mg sodium per day.
- Calories
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- Nov 07, 2020
Raw leafy greens contain only about 100 calories per pound and are packed with nutrients.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020