Sole Quotes - Page 14

• Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.

  Leon Trotsky

  Mean, States, Employers

  "The Revolution Betrayed: What Is the Soviet Union and Where Is It Going?"by Leon Trotsky, translated by Max Eastman, (ch. 11), 1936.

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• Pain, I came to feel, might well prove to be the sole proof of the persistence of consciousness within the flesh, the sole physical expression of consciousness. As my body acquired muscle, and in turn strength, there was gradually born within me a tendency towards the positive acceptance of pain, and my interest in physical suffering deepened.

  Yukio Mishima

  Pain, Acceptance, Persistence

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• The Drop's unpredictability is organic rather than sensationalistic. The movie doesn't pull surprises out of thin air for the sole purpose of shocking an audience - it lets them develop naturally.

  James Berardinelli

  Air, Purpose, Surprise

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• What do we mean by the defeat of the enemy? Simply the destruction of his forces, whether by death, injury, or any other means-either completely or enough to make him stop fighting. . . . The complete or partial destruction of the enemy must be regarded as the sole object of all engagements. . . . Direct annihilation of the enemy's forces must always be the dominant consideration.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Mean, Fighting, Enemy

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (2007). “On War”, p.26, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I have no idea what the U.S. intends to do further there and what would be the reaction of the Iraqi people. I only know that the sole option is to leave Iraq to the Iraqi people.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Ideas, Iraq, People

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• Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary

  Julian Barnes

  Powerful, Responsibility, Evidence

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.104, Random House

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• I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Zero, Struggle, Intention

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• I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Strenght, Proud

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1949). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”

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• Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.

  Charlotte Mason

  Spiritual, Children, Thinking

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• You truly help people with the things that you sell. Once you are aware of that vital piece of information every demonstration, every presentation, every transaction will be delivered with a light shining from your heart. From your heart will shine a beacon that tells all prospects you can truly help and that that is your sole purpose for being there.

  Chris Murray

  Heart, Light, People

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• Sometimes, I go to Barnes & Noble with the sole intention of moving all copies of the bible to the fiction section.

  Zach Braff

  Moving, Noble, Fiction

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• You wouldn't have had to call a penalty on me, I would've called I on myself'.
  9. “I'm the sole judge of my standards”.
  10. “I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me like it bothers some people. You can outwork the best player in the world.

  Ben Hogan

  Player, People, Judging

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• You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself flowers in your veins,
  till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars: and
  perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more than
  so, because men and women are in it who are every one sole heirs as well
  as you. Till you can sing and rejoice and delight, as misers do in gold, and
  kings in scepters, you never enjoy the world.

  Thomas Traherne

  Stars, Kings, Flower

  'Centuries of Meditations' Century 1, 29

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• Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Innocent, Pleasure, Pursuit

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1909). “The Map of Life”

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• There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

  Paul Eldridge

  Discovery, Claims, Profundity

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• Working in the service of the dead, biographers quit their labors only when the sole remaining task is the impossible- resurrection.

  Laura Furman

  Tasks, Impossible, Quitting

  Laura Furman (2011). “The Mother Who Stayed: Stories”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Sadness, Sorrow

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• When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

  Mark Twain

  Spiritual, Believe, Doubt

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.

  William Styron

  Writing, Ambition, College

  William Styron (2012). “Selected Letters of William Styron”, p.23, Random House

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• Hamas is responsible for countless homicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. They have waged a terror war with the sole intent of murdering innocent people.

  Vito Fossella

  War, People, Citizens

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• When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close attention to the plants and whether they're getting enough water and if their roots are deep enough. Soil under the fingernails, grapes being trampled under bare feet, fingers sticky from handling fresh fruit. It's that green stripe you get around the sole of your shoes when you mow the lawn. Life in the age to come. Earthy.

  Rob Bell

  Shoes, Roots, Feet

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• India saw from the beginning, - and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, - that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Ignorance, Light, Sri Lanka

  "The Renaissance in India" by Sri Aurobindo in "Arya", intyoga.online.fr. August 1918 - November 1918.

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• Brand-image campaigns establish contact with the subconscious of the consumer below the word level. They do this with visual symbols instead of words, Mr. Martineau says, because the visual symbols are far more significant. They communicate faster. They are more direct. There is no work, no mental effort. Their sole purpose is to create images and moods.

  Rosser Reeves

  Effort, Purpose, Levels

  "Reality In Advertising".

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• The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of literature on a motor-car, their sole object being motion. They will tell you how many books they have read in a year. Unless you give at least 45 minutes to careful, fatiguing reflection (it is an awful bore at first) upon what you are reading, your 90 minutes of a night are chiefly wasted.

  Arnold Bennett

  Book, Reading, Cutting

  Arnold Bennett (2013). “How To Live On Twenty-Four Hours A Day”, p.40, Read Books Ltd

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• Oh yes. You’ve caught me. I confess. My sole purpose in life is to gleefully, willfully, maniacally destroy all of your precious chrome babies.

  Jennifer Estep

  Baby, Purpose, Life Is

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Widow's Web”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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