- Getting
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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
- Diary
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memoirs are - memory is - rarely 100 percent accurate. Any autobiography is a construct, ballpark, even unnatural. Private diaries, too, can be unreliable - a detail that matters only if the diary is read.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is, I made $400 a week and only for 26 weeks a year. I never had any money.
- Quarrel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
- Key
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the key thing is that Iraq, while it's got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself as an oil exporter and these days its exports are only about one tenth that of neighboring Saudi Arabia.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, we're trying to keep a huge juggling act in balance, with the tower as just one of the many balls in play.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kindness boggles my mind. It's the only force in nature that increases simultaneously for the giver and the receiver.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone that is not an ultra-conservative recognizes the irony of FOX's 'Fair and Balanced' moniker, which only accentuates its actual bias.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's often a good, honest case to be made that a century-old company has not only a knack for growing and managing a P&L, but also, perhaps, a heart and soul.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020