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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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One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
- Mountains
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
- Preparation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
- Devotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
- Need
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Zero-length arrays are useful only in cases where you have a large structure, which contains a field of dynamic length, and you need to share that structure across program or even computer boundaries.
- Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
- Light
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We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have what we call a 'symphony act.' I'm the only comedian, I think, in the country that does it.
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- Nov 07, 2020