- People
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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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- Dominion
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in which I move.
- Pampered
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Gandhi family is a pampered lot. They have only dealt with people at their beck and call.
- Sticks
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- Nov 07, 2020
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.
- Devotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism.
- Nov 07, 2020