- Honesty
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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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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The current nation-state model is the product of thousands of years of political, social, and cultural evolution. I mean, it was only recently - in, like, the last few decades - that people have tried to create an organizing principle larger than the nation-state.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government can only spend a dollar to help someone when it forcibly takes a dollar from someone else.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'progressive' tax-and-spend agenda has been put on trial. The policies not only lead to much slower growth but also benefit the rich and politically well-connected at the expense of everyone else.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
If only the majority of the wealthiest top 10 percent of Americans own stock directly - which does not include pension and retirement accounts - then the divide between rich and poor is likely to expand.
- Governments
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones.
- Cold War
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the Cold War, America took sides not only in disputes between Arab countries, but also in debates within them.
- Perception
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception without sensory input.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your experience is a dream; so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortex is repressed during dreaming, lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were delighted to have Nigel as a producer. The only problem is that Nigel is so famous that he seems to dominate most interviews without being there.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have only 95 minutes of material, make an only 95-minute movie. Amazing how often that's forgotten.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I auditioned for 'Animal House,' I had only done some plays at a local dinner theater in Virginia.
- Calm
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020