- Progress
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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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- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The engineer performs many public functions from which he gets only philosophical satisfactions. Most people do not know it, but he is an economic and social force.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My earliest realization of the stir of national life was the torch parade in the Garfield campaign. On that occasion, I was not only allowed out that night, but I saw the lamps being filled and lighted.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peace in Europe can only come through union in one economic system. The United States of Europe are overdue.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind of lost contact. At one point, the only connection I had with the audience was with people out there lighting cigarettes.
- Physical
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- Nov 07, 2020
The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020