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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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- Matter
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Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people.
- Nothing
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He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want.
- Long
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All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
- Man
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The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
- Desire
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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
- Picture
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There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.
- Flourishes
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It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.
- Life
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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
- Freedom
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There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
- I Am
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Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indulgence in frivolous speech not only reveals one's lack of moral character, but it deprives him of good qualities also.
- Copy
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- Nov 07, 2020