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• It's far more difficult being a small-business owner starting a business than it is for me with thousands of people working for us and 400 companies. Building a business from scratch is 24 hours, 7 days a week, divorces, it's difficult to hold your family life together, it's bloody hard work and only one word really matters - and that's surviving.

  Richard Branson

  Divorce, Hard Work, People

  "Richard Branson on Being Richard Branson". Interview with Rod Kurtz, www.entrepreneur.com. December 17, 2012.

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• In the spiritual lore of India there is a story that the Lord whispered only one word in our ears when he sent us into the world: 'Give.' Give freely of your time, your talent, your resources; give without asking for anything in return. This is the secret of living in joy and security.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Spiritual, Giving, Joy

  Eknath Easwaran (1979). “Like a Thousand Suns: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume II”, p.186, Nilgiri Press

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• Eternal life does not violate the laws of physics. After all, we only die because of one word: "error." The longer we live, the more errors there are that are made by our bodies when they read our genes. That means cells get sluggish. The body doesn't function as well as it could, which is why the skin ages. Then organs eventually fail, so that's why we die.

  Michio Kaku

  Mean, Errors, Cells

  "'Eternal Life Does Not Violate the Laws of Physics'". Interview with Philip Bethge and Rafaela von Bredow, www.spiegel.de. September 28, 2012.

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• What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Selfishness, World

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• Without thinking, [Will] spoke. 'Halt? Are you awake?' 'No.' The ill humor in the one-word reply was unmistakable. 'Oh. Sorry.' 'Shut up.' He pondered whether to apologize again and decided this would go against the instruction to shut up, so remained silent.

  John Flanagan

  Sorry, Thinking, Apologizing

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• Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.

  Flann O'Brien

  Said, Handiwork

  Flann O'Brien (2007). “The Complete Novels”, Everyman's Library

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• The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?" It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: "Nothing.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Book, Thoughtful, Past

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.245, Dial Press

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• I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our solitude and extinguishes our radiance: Nothing! I believe that that word does not point to our insignificance or our unhappiness, but on the contrary to our fulfillment and our divinity, since everything is in ourselves.

  Henri Barbusse

  Believe, Solitude, Doe

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• I thought Marcus was going to be in my life forever. Then I thought I was wrong. Now he’s back. But this time I know what’s certain: Marcus will be gone again, and back again and again and again because nothing is permanent. Especially people. Strangers become friends. Friends become lovers. Lovers become strangers. Strangers become friends once more, and over and over. Tomorrow, next week, fifty years from now, I know I’ll get another one-word postcard from Marcus, because this one doesn’t have a period signifying the end of the sentence. Or the end of anything at all.

  Megan McCafferty

  Love, Next Week, Years

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.1233, Crown

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• The assurance of Heaven is never given to the person. And that's why at the core of the Christian faith is the grace of God. If there's one word I would grab from all of that, it's forgiveness - that you can be forgiven. I can be forgiven, and it is of the grace of God. But once you understand that, I think the ramifications are worldwide.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Christian, Thinking, Heaven

  "What Makes the Christian Message Unique?". Interview with Gordon Robertson, www.cbn.com.

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• One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

  Dan Quayle

  Witty, Responsibility, Political

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• Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.

  Laurence Olivier

  Life, Disappointment, Sunset

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• I love food. I mean, I really love food. I take pictures of my finest, funniest and most fascinating dishes, post them on Twitter, and send them to friends. I treat menus like classic literature, refusing to skip even one word. I read the description of every item, regardless of whether or not I'm interested in eating it.

  Rachel Nichols

  Mean, Literature, Classic

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• Eddie Robinson is about one word: winning and losing.

  Paul Collier

  Basketball, Winning, Losing

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• It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should at least have verified that message by his own signature. Is it not wonderful that not one word was written by Christ?

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religion, Atheism, Signatures

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1903). “What Must We Do to be Saved?: A Study of the Christian Religion, Its Creeds, and Its Sacred Book”

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• "Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?"
  Absently he replied, "I was, once."
  "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad a tale in three words as any you might have told me. But a life without a tale is like a sea without salt. How do you live?"
  "I live."
  "Another?" Foamfollower returned. "In two words, a story sadder than the first. Say no more - with one word you will make me weep."

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Sea, Two, Three

  "Lord Foul's Bane: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Book One". Book by Stephen Donaldson, 2013.

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• It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.

  Naomi Campbell

  People, Challenges, Looks

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• One word," Ted replied, dead serious, "can change the whole world." There was a moment while we all considered this. Finally Lissa said to Chloe, loud enough for all of us to hear (she'd had a minibottle or two herself), "I bet he did really well on his SATs.

  Sarah Dessen

  Two, Chloe, World

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “This Lullaby”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one word does begin a novel, and from that small beginning everything else follows. Even if it's just 'The', write something on that blank page.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Writing, Effort, Doe

  FaceBook post by Laurell K Hamilton from Jan 24, 2011

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• Not one word of the following is true

  Stephen Fry

  Following

  Stephen Fry (2010). “The Liar”, p.9, Random House

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• If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything - just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means.

  Michele Bachmann

  Motivation, Mean, Views

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• In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Truth, Integrity, People

  Czeslaw Milosz's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1980.

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• This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspiring, Writing, Creativity

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• You never hear Jesus say in Pilate's judgement hall one word that would let you imagine that He was sorry that He had undertaken so costly a sacrifice for us. When His hands are pierced, when He is parched with fever, His tongue dried up like a shard of pottery, when His whole body is dissolved into the dust of death, you never hear a groan or a shriek that looks like Jesus is going back on His commitment.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Sorry, Commitment

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• When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others.

  André Brink

  Lying, Silence, Wish

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