Sole Quotes - Page 23

• Every measurement of where you have more public confidence in creating jobs, American prosperity, controlling crime, health care, providing education, all of these standards, Bill Clinton has considerably higher marks... The sole exception is on protecting taxes, which is initially his attack.

  Mark Shields

  Jobs, Creating, Care

  "David Gergen and Mark Shields on Bill Clinton's 100 Days". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. April 29, 1993.

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• I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider. The decider is a shared and joint responsibility.

  Arlen Specter

  Responsibility, President, Joints

  Arlen Specter's remarks in a hearing on Congress's War Powers (January 30, 2007), as quoted in "Senate Republicans divided in dissent on Iraq", NBC News, January 30, 2007.

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• It's a great discipline to have to report to somebody, even if you're the sole owner

  Tim O'Reilly

  Business, Discipline, Management

  "TIP OF THE DAY: Get People to Hold You Accountable". www.businessinsider.com. August 2, 2010.

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• So: if the chronic inflation undergone by Americans, and in almost every other country, is caused by the continuing creation of new money, and if in each country its governmental "Central Bank" (in the United States, the Federal Reserve) is the sole monopoly source and creator of all money, who then is responsible for the blight of inflation? Who except the very institution that is solely empowered to create money, that is, the Fed (and the Bank of England, and the Bank of Italy, and other central banks) itself?

  Murray Rothbard

  Country, England, United States

  "The Case against the Fed". Book by Murray Rothbard, 1994.

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• Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.

  Edward Gibbon

  History, Naked, Narrative

  Edward Gibbon (1862). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.2

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• Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mean, Men, Views

  Samuel Johnson (1798). “Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.191

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• During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The opinion prevailed amoung advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed. According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

  Albert Einstein

  School, Thinking, Knowing

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic
  and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Pain, Joy, Causes

  Ivan Turgenev (2011). “The Torrents of Spring: And First Love”, p.240, The Floating Press

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• The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Humanity, Meaning Of Life

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

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• I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started studying squares, rectangles, triangles and the sensations they give rise to It is untrue that my work depends on any literary impulse or has any illustrative intention. The marks on the canvas are sole and essential agents in a series of relationships which form the structure of the painting.

  Bridget Riley

  Squares, Giving, Essentials

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• There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth.

  Vaclav Havel

  Art, Authenticity, Criteria

  "Six Asides About Culture". "Living in Truth". Book by Václav Havel, 1986.

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• The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Mean, Solitude, Those You Love

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• The laws are the sole guardians of right, and when the magistrate dares not act, every person is insecure.

  Noah Webster

  Insecure, Law, Guardian

  Noah Webster (1787). “An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System”, p.16

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• All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Spiritual, Heart, Purpose

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• When you make Service your sole purpose in life, it eliminates fear, focuses your mind and gives you meaning.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Giving, Mind, Purpose

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  Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.

  Harry Houdini

  Magic, Scientist, Accepted

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• ...ma gia volgena il mio disio e'l velle si come rota ch'igualmente e mossa, l'amor che move: i sole e l'altre stelle ...as a wheel turns smoothtly, free from jars, my will and my desire were turned by love, The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

  Dante Alighieri

  Stars, Moving, Desire

  Divina Commedia "Paradiso" canto 33, l. 145 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)

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• My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.

  Pancho Villa

  Giving Up, Real, Ambition

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• My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light.

  Carl Jung

  Light, Understanding, Darkness

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

  Harry S. Truman

  Education, Book, Reading

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• At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.

  Nikki Reed

  The End Of The Day, Purpose, Reason

  "'Twilight' Tuesday: Nikki Reed Hopes to Make Us Understand What's Beneath Rosalie's Beautiful, Hard Exterior". Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. July 22, 2008.

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• My sole focus as far back as I can remember was all about my dream to become a singer.

  Sheena Easton

  Dream, Focus, Singers

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• In actual fact the pacifistic-humane idea is perfectly all right perhaps when the highest type of man has previously conquered and subjected the world to an extent that makes him the sole ruler of this earth… Therefore, first struggle and then perhaps pacifism.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Struggle, Men

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Anger, Management, Walks

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• Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Chosen, Universal

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1988). “Ronald Reagan”

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