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• Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Writing, Divinity, Tablets

  "Theory as Practice (On Philosophy: To Dorothea)". Book by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, 1997.

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• There's only one way for an individual to remain upright, not to fall to pieces, not to sink into the mire of self-oblivionorself-contempt. That's calmly to turn away from everything, to say, "Enough!" and, folding one's useless arms across one's empty breast, to retain the ultimate, the sole attainable virtue, the virtue of recognizing one's own insignificance.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Fall, Self, Pieces

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• Take 15 minutes daily, thinking of pleasant scenarios regarding your body, with the sole intent of enjoying your body and appreciating its strength and stamina and flexibility and beauty. When you visualize for the joy of visualizing rather than with the intention of correcting some deficiency, your thoughts are more pure and, therefore, more powerful. When you visualize to overcome something that is wrong, your thoughts are diluted with the "lackful" side of the equation. In time, your physical condition will acquiesce to your dominant thoughts.

  Esther Hicks

  Powerful, Thinking, Appreciate

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• In inorganic chemistry the radicals are simple; in organic chemistry they are compounds—that is the sole difference.

  Jean-Baptiste Dumas

  Simple, Differences, Chemistry

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• Cleaning up the country cannot be the sole responsibility of sweepers. Do citizens have no role in this? We have to change this mindset.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Responsibility, Roles

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• Most days I feel like the sole survivor of a shipwreck, rowing my paddleboat across a sea of people on waves made of an infinite array of hands and crests that reveal anonymous faces. On a good day, the clouds part to alight on-lo and behold-an island! I step ashore, only find that it too is made of people, mangled bodies somehow still alive. They grab at my feet, pulling me under like quicksand. The last thing I see before suffocating is the sky, a billion eyes staring down, blinking in undulating electric ripples. The cold rain I feel on my cheeks is the tears of the people.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Rain, Good Day, Eye

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• Experience teacheth us
  That resolution 's a sole help at need:
  And this, my lord, our honour teacheth us,
  That we be bold in every enterprise:
  Then since there is no way, but fight or die,
  Be resolute, my lord, for victory.

  William Shakespeare

  Fighting, Victory, Needs

  William Shakespeare (1780). “Supplement to the Edition of Shakespeare's Plays Published in 1778”, p.227

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• Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics.

  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

  Truth, Purpose, Imbeciles

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• It is better to pay court to a queen ... than to worship, as we too often do, some unworthy person whose wealth is his sole passport into society. I believe that a habit of respect is good for the human race.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Respect, Queens, Believe

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• I spent a part of ...1923 with...Dr. W.W. Keen...In the ..Civil War....he was a surgeon...and had seen many men die from suppuration of wounds after he had operated. ...He would hold the sutures in his teeth and sharpen his knife on the sole of his boot, after he had raised up his boot from the muddy ground. That was the accepted practice at the time.

  Paul Douglas

  War, Dark, Men

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• A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.

  Voltaire

  Science, Discovery, Should Have

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.2491, Delphi Classics

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• I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole purpose - you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.

  William Bennett

  Country, Baby, Black

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• Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.

  John Milton

  Tyranny, Paradise Lost Book 1, Paradise Lost Book 9

  John Milton (1850). “Paradise Lost”, p.21

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• The sole purpose is to provide infinite springs, at which the soul may allay the eternal thirst TO KNOW which is forever unquenchable within it, since to quench it, would be to extinguish the soul's self.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Spring, Self, Forever

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• The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sun, Giver

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.610, Delphi Classics

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• With fear and trembling we must rely upon God for guidance in the inner depths. This is the sole way to walk according to the spirit.

  Watchman Nee

  Rely Upon, Depth, Way

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.84, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• From millions of men . . . one man must step forward who with apodictic force will form granite principles from the wavering idea-world of the broad masses and take up the struggle for their sole correctness, until from the shifting waves of a fre thought-world there will arise a brazen cliff of solid unity in faith and will.

  Adolf Hitler

  Struggle, Men, Ideas

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Love Is, Self, Moral

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.349

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• The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.

  Norman Mailer

  Memories, Editors, Doe

  Norman Mailer (2003). “The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing”, p.103, Random House

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• All fanaticism is false, because it is a contradiction of the very nature of God and of Truth. Truth cannot be shut up in a single book, Bible or Veda or Koran, or in a single religion. The Divine Being is eternal and universal and infinite and cannot be the sole property of the Mussulmans or of the Semitic religions only, - those that happened to be in a line from the Bible and to have Jewish or Arabian prophets for their founders.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Book, Lines, Vedas

  Sri Aurobindo, Aurobindo Ghose (1993). “The Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice”, p.352, Lotus Press

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• Obviously I attach myself so much to my songwriting. If I didn't attach myself to that being my sole attribute, then I would be fine with those.

  Luke Temple

  Would Be, Attributes, Fine

  Interview with James Rickman, therumpus.net. June 30, 2014.

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• Give with a truly glad heart, for the sole purpose of the good it will do, and whatever you give shall return to you, multiplied, as if on wings, covered in sparkles.

  Mike Dooley

  Inspirational, Karma, Heart

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• Not only America but all countries should think together about how the enormous might of the sole remaining superpower should be used. We need a leadership that is based on partnership, a leadership that unites nations and makes it possible to solve the problems of the globe together. Otherwise, we will have another Gold Rush for a superpower that wants to gain even greater advantages, that wants to gain an absolutely new position for itself. That would lead to a perverse utopia.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Thinking, America

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• We have the beginnings of feminism starting to rear its head, where all of that got blown up. The whole point of going to college became not to find a husband - screw that! - feminism became, "You don't want anything about a man to be defining you, and you don't want your relationship to define, you! You don't want a relationship to be your happiness. You certainly don't want marriage to be the sole determining reason you live".

  Rush Limbaugh

  Husband, College, Men

  "Clinton’s Performance Was Great, But I’ll Tell You the Real Story of Bill and Hillary". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. July 27, 2016.

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• At the end of the day, my sole goal, when I go into any scene, is to try to be as honest as I possibly can, and then everything else is second. The most important thing for me is to just be as honest as I possibly can.

  Michael Rapaport

  Goal, The End Of The Day, Important

  Source: collider.com

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