- History
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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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- Evidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.
- American Cities
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- Nov 07, 2020
If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.
- Historical
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- Nov 07, 2020
A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
- Brushes
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- Nov 07, 2020
She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.
- Deliberately
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- Nov 07, 2020
North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
- Soldiers
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- Nov 07, 2020
A South Korean teenager, 18-year-old male, is about five inches taller than his North Korean counterpart. And there are many soldiers who are only about 4'6". The height requirement is supposed to be 4'9". That's the size of my 12-year-old son.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020