Sole Quotes - Page 20

Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Talking, Privilege, Nonsense

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.

Dante Alighieri

Moving, Amor, Divine Comedy

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As far as Death was aware, the sole reason for any human association with pigs and lambs was as a prelude to chops and sausages. Quite why they should dress up for children’s wallpaper as well was a mystery. Hello, little folk, this is what you’re going to eat… He felt that if only he could find the key to it, he’d know a lot more about human beings.

Terry Pratchett

Children, Keys, Pigs

Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.411, Random House

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And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Giving Up, Men, Roots

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...there are two (inter alia) two ways of ruining a society - namely, letting the market "be the sole director of the fate of human beings," and allowing technology to permeate every aspect of our lives. In the United States, both of these developments have converged, creating a huge chasm between rich and poor and pushing us over the edge into a kind of antisociety... While these developments have been widely hailed as the dawn of a golden age, the likelihood is that they actually amount to a death knell, the beginning of the end of the American empire.

Morris Berman

Fate, Technology, Two

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The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental.

Jacques Maritain

Philosophy, Silence, Doubt

Jacques Maritain, E. I. Watkin (2005). “An Introduction to Philosophy”, p.128, Rowman & Littlefield

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It is not in our life that God's help and presence must still be proved, but rather God's presence and help have been demonstrated for us in the life of Jesus Christ. It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, to his Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jesus, Son, Israel

"Life Together".

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The thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)

Ezra Pound

Sleep, America, Would Be

Ezra Pound, Lea Baechler, A. Walton Litz (1990). “Personae: The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound”, p.182, New Directions Publishing

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When we planned our country's economic development, we had the strategic objective of our Revolution in mind. It was not planned for economic development [to be] solely an end in itself. There are some who have forgotten that the sole basis of our revolutionary struggle was the ideology and politics which we follow.

Mengistu Haile Mariam

Country, Struggle, Mind

"Integrated Rural Development: The Ethiopian Experience and the Debate". Book by J. M. Cohen, 1987.

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Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

Sara Teasdale

Mastery, Spirit, Let Me

Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.

Alfred North Whitehead

Creativity, Ideas, Common Sense

Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.116, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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I think that the essential instruction of the Bible is very much topical. The sole problem is that with every change of historical setting, you need to readjust the interpretation of the message.

Zygmunt Bauman

Thinking, Historical, Essentials

Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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The sole relief I am asking for is to be released from military prison after serving six years of confinement as a person who did not intend to harm the interests of the United States or harm any service members.

Chelsea Manning

Military, Years, Six

Source: www.truth-out.org

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In many people's many people's minds this is the sole reason Barack Obama was elected. He was elected to fix race relations.

Rush Limbaugh

Race, People, Mind

Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.

Anna Quindlen

Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

"A Short Guide To A Happy Life". Book by Anna Quindlen, 2010.

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Earning money is not the sole objective of life or education. A community of any quality should have a whole range of skills and interests. They should paint, write, perform, visit art galleries and enjoy world-class concerts. Only then will they form a vibrant, rounded, interesting community.

Goh Chok Tong

Art, Writing, Should Have

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Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

Tony Visconti

Musician, Records, Today

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Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India.

Swami Vivekananda

People, India, Importance

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1103, Manonmani Publishers

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Many of us are fortunate to be blessed with the ability to succeed - not for our sole benefit, but so we may apply the result of our success to assist others.

Frank McKinney

Stay Strong, Blessed, Succeed

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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

Ted Danson

Responsibility, Organization, Victory

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There isn't much to say about my childhood. I remember explosions of intense happiness, followed shortly afterwards by profound melancholy that always prompted remarks and comments from those around me on how remote my life was from my age. Therefore I rapidly lost all my respect for age. From then on, I always lived without any age, given that every year I used to repudiate it, choosing another one for the sole good reason that I liked it better.

Domenico Gnoli

Years, Profound, Childhood

Source: observer.com

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The Constitution is very clear: Congress has sole discretion over defining who is and who isn't a citizen and how you become one. It's not the 14th Amendment.

Rush Limbaugh

Citizens, Defining, Constitution

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I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.

Charles R. Swindoll

Song, Jesus, Leader

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In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.

Upton Sinclair

Competition, Facts, Tests

Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.329, Xist Publishing

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Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to retrieve. It is as if he was sent to this earth with the sole purpose of writing this book.

Henning Mankell

Believe, Book, Writing

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