Sole Quotes

• The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Life, Humanity

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Kingdom of God Is Within You”, p.269, Xist Publishing

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• The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they score on standardized tests. Education is purely an issue of learning - we can no longer afford to have it polluted by damn politics. Leave pollution up to the politicians

  Ray Bradbury

  Issues, Tests, Students

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.160, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Don't depend on acting as your sole source of income. Work nights, so you can have your days off to attend auditions. Have something to fall back on. That's what my mother taught me, and it's critical in Hollywood.

  Michael Clarke Duncan

  Mother, Fall, Night

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.

  Salvador Dali

  Differences, Mad, Facts

  Salvador Dali (2013). “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí”, p.349, Courier Corporation

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• You have absolute control over just one thing, your thoughts. This divine gift is the sole means by which you may control your destiny. If you fail to control your mind, you will control nothing else.

  Napoleon Hill

  Mean, Destiny, Mind

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• For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Educational, Men, Effort

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• The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Power, Justice, Diversity

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.164, Shambhala Publications

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  Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

  Jane Addams

  Expression, Code Of Ethics, Hull House

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.128, Youcanprint

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• It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

  Gustav Mahler

  Should, Endeavor

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• Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Ambition, Goal

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• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 11 (1962)

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• The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

  Sophocles

  Inspirational, Honesty, Pain

  "Oedipus Rex". Play by Sophocles, Line 1184,

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• The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Men, Doe

  c.1654-1662 Pense es, no.139 (translated byA Krailsheimer).

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• Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.

  Dave Pelzer

  Effort, Purpose, Vain

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• Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.

  Mother Teresa

  Compassion, Purpose, Our Love

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• Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

  Pope John Paul II

  Love, Family, Anniversary

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• Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.

  Ned Rorem

  Art, Nostalgia, Evoke

  Ned Rorem (2013). “Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary”, p.245, Open Road Media

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• I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.

  Roger Nash Baldwin

  Class, Goal, Wealth

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• We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.

  Thomas Clarkson

  Order, Quality, Purpose

  Thomas Clarkson, Ottobah Cugoano (2010). “Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species”, Broadview Press

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• The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.

  Lech Walesa

  Truth, People, Dignity

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• After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Sarcastic, Laughter, Humorous

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• The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

  Marquis de Sade

  Ideas, Forgiving, Religion

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

  Federico Fellini

  Movie, Gambling, Would Be

  The Atlantic, December 1965.

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• The field is the sole influence of the particle.

  Albert Einstein

  Mind Your Own Business, Fields, Influence

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• Ere Babylon was dust, The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child, Met his own image walking in the garden, That apparition, sole of men, he saw.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Children, Men, Garden

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1819) act 1, l. 191

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