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• All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in scientific knowledge. Love is the sole holdout-nothing can explain it. A Chinese writer by the name of Ah Cheng wrote that love is just a chemical reaction, an unconventional point of view that seemed quite fresh at the time. But if love can be controlled and initiated by means of chemistry, then novelists would be out of a job. So while he may have had his finger on the truth, I'll remain a member of the loyal opposition.

  Mo Yan

  Jobs, Mean, Love Is

  Mo Yan (2013). “Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out: A Novel”, p.597, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced by a victorious group of men on a defeated group, with the sole purpose of regulating the dominion of the victorious group over the vanquished, and securing itself against revolt from within and attacks from abroad. Teleologically, this dominion had no other purpose than the economic exploitation of the vanquished by the victors.

  Franz Oppenheimer

  Men, Groups, Purpose

  Franz Oppenheimer (1923). “The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically”, p.15, Transaction Publishers

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• Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Spiritual, Men

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• Man's life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.

  Pope John Paul II

  Men, Catholic, Lord

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.

  James Branch Cabell

  Men, Logic, Cases

  James Branch Cabell (2008). “Between Dawn and Sunrise”, p.14, Wildside Press LLC

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• The nut of this tree is hung high aloft, wrapped in a silk wrapper, which is enclosed in a case of sole leather, which again is packed in a mass of shock absorbing, vermin proof pulp, sealed up in a waterproof, ironwood case, and finally cased in a vegetable porcupine of spines, almost impregnable. There is no nut so protected; there is no nut in our woods to compare with it as food. What is a Chesnut?

  Luis de Camoes

  Vegetables, Nuts, Tree

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• Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Motivational, World, Satisfied

  Walter Savage Landor (1846). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.474

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• If the divine Mercy grants him the knowledge of himself, then his adoration will be pure; and, for him, paradise and hell, recompense, spiritual degrees and all created things will be as though God had never created them. He will not accord them any importance, nor will he take them into consideration, except to the extent that it is prescribed by the divine Law and Wisdom. For then he will know Who is the sole Agent.

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Knowledge

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• In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Flow, Five Senses, Modern

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.30, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.

  Victor Hugo

  Ideas, Mind, Trade

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• The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he could not do before. I say do and not know, because knowledge that doesn't lead to doing something new or doing something better is not knowledge at all.

  Jacques Barzun

  Teaching, Learning, School

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• The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.

  Jules Verne

  Civilization, Perfection, Humanity

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• Sometimes, after you have taken part in a seven, one or two-day retreat, you could feel that your level of practice had risen. That was because we had given our undivided attention to breaking through our level of practice. We knew that was the sole purpose of coming to a retreat here, so our levels were uplifted and our karma left behind.

  Ching Hai

  Karma, Spiritual, Taken

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• Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sports, Hockey, Suffering

  FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY (1960). “NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND AND THE GRAND INQUISITOR”

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• The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

  Irving Kaufman

  Trust, History, Our Society

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• I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive then I believe you are better off not doing it. A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

  Richard Branson

  Motivational, Business, Fun

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

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• I believe that God has endowed men with certain inalienable rights as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and that no legislature and no majority, however great, may morally limit or destroy these; that the sole function of government is to protect life, liberty, and property, and anything more than this is usurpation and oppression.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Believe, Men, Rights

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Civilization, Obsession, Moments

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• The first ministers were the twelve disciples. There is no evidence that Jesus chose them because they are brighter or nicer than other people. Their sole qualification seems to have been their initial willingness to rise to their feet when Jesus said, "Follow me."

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Feet, People

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith”, p.259, Zondervan

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• It is now 14 years since I first suggested that organic farming might have some benefits and ought to be taken seriously. I shall never forget the vehemence of the reaction.. much of it coming from the sort of people who regard agriculture as an industrial process, with production as the sole yardstick of success.

  Prince Charles

  Taken, Years, Agriculture

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• Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walk only on feelings. That faces upward and in its mirror receives heavenly roads, which travel along themselves. That has learned to walk upon water when it scoops, that walks upon wells, transfiguring every path. That steps into other hands, changes those that are like it into a landscape: wanders and arrives within them, fills them with arrival.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Hands, Mirrors, Water

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “Palm”

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• No private enterprise will ever fall prey to bureaucratic methods of management if it is operated with the sole aim of making profit.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Fall, Management, Prey

  Ludwig Von Mises (1969). “Bureaucracy”, ICON Group International

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• The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Hands, Giving, Gains

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• When you pray, pray so that you may know Him. When you seek to simplify, do it as a means of knowing Him more. When you surrender, or behave with humility or sacrifice, do it with the sole purpose in mind to know Him.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Mean, Humility, Sacrifice

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• Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.

  Vaclav Havel

  Thrones, Modern, Vacant

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