- Farther
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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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- Poet
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.
- Machine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.
- Fools
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity to meet that threat actually has diminished. It is one of the reasons many of us opposed that action against Iraq.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard line. The only thing that Jack Tatum didn't do was wrap me up so I backed into the endzone backwards.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
- Comparable
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- Nov 07, 2020