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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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- Persistence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if all traditional publishers had turned them down.
- Evolution
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- Nov 07, 2020
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
- Trust
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- Nov 07, 2020
One is only susceptible to lobbying if they're weak and they trust what an individual tells them without verification.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only nice poets I've ever met were bad poets, and a bad poet is not a poet at all - ergo, I've never met a nice poet.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The interesting roles have only come since I got into my 30s. But I didn't know that was going to happen.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Majority of minds are warped into the belief of the only person worth helping is themself.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11.
- Perfection
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.
- Clear
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- Nov 07, 2020
My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know that after September 11, there were still terrorists around. We do get continuing information that they're intent on causing some damage and harm to not only U.S. interests but allied interests.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.
- Nov 07, 2020