- Knowledge
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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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- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only because international donors have stepped in.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.
- Effective
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- Nov 07, 2020
U.N. Security Council resolutions are only as effective as their enforcement.
- Strange
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
- Nov 07, 2020
It turns out that if you're a 24-year-old whose only line on their resume says CEO, you are totally unemployable.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm conscious that there's only a limited amount that I'll get done before I get shuffled into retirement, but I certainly have no desire to retire.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.
- Nov 07, 2020
Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.
- Nov 07, 2020
We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.
- Damage
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- Nov 07, 2020
The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
- Nov 07, 2020