- Opportunity
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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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- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
- Once
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- Nov 07, 2020
You only live once.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.
- Encourages
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- Nov 07, 2020
Amazon deliberately provides cafeteria space for only a third of its employees, which encourages people to venture out of the office.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020