- Injustice
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are times when you'll only have one or two seconds to decide if you're going to bet on something and you need to be decisive. You need to do math quickly in your head.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
- Creating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.
- Nov 07, 2020
The only reason I'm an actor is that a lady pulled out of a parking space in front of a producer's office.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Information is crucial to our biological substance - our genetic code is information. But before 1950, it was not obvious that inheritance had anything to do with code. And it was only after the invention of the telegraph that we understood that our nerves carry messages, just like wires.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an Ashkenazi Jew, and there are a whole host of genetic disorders that only Ashkenazi Jews have. I don't know if you know this, but 16 or 17 disorders that we carry the gene for.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a sense that the site and the occasion demand a form of writing which goes beyond plain informative prose. Each word is so valued that the letters forming it are seen as objects of solemn beauty.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
A similar revolving fund could be set up for Germany, for a durable peace can rest only upon a Germany that, while militarily impotent, is industrially active.
- Economic Activity
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to read a lot about myself and the projects I was doing. When I was only acting, I wouldn't read any reviews because I didn't find them to be very helpful.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020