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• Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Night, Pigs

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go. The dogs of the field and the cats of the kitchen are loved because soon they must depart. These are not the sole reasons, but at the heart of morning welcomes and afternoon laughters is the promise of farewell. In the gray muzzle of an old dog we see goodbye. In the tired face of an old friend we read long journeys beyond returns.

  Ray Bradbury

  Goodbye, Dog, Morning

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• But women are very differently situated with respect to eachother - for they are all rivals (...) Is it then surprising that when the sole ambition of woman centres in beauty, and interest gives vanity additional force, perpetual rivalships should ensue? They are all running the same race, and would rise above the virtue of morals, if they did not view each other with a suspicious and even envious eye.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Running, Ambition, Eye

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• This is America, and you have the right to remain sick. If you choose to treat yourself and your family, that is within your rights, and is necessarily your sole decision based on what you know to be best.

  Andrew Saul

  Rights, America, Sick

  "Helping People Doctor Themselves". Interview with Richard A. Passwater, wholefoodsmagazine.com. January 18, 2013.

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• Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.

  Jonathan Swift

  Sex, Anger, Delight

  Jonathan Swift (1803). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ... : with Notes, Historical and Critical”, p.187

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• The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the individual in both; in the fleeting present as the sole form in which actuality exists; in the contingency and relativity of all things; in continual becoming without being; in continual desire without satisfaction; in the continual frustration of striving of which life consists. . . Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Real, Frustration, Vanity

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• Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Book, Luxury

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (2000). “Thirty-two Stories”, p.134, Hackett Publishing

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• To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth.

  Esi Edugyan

  Chocolate, Earth, Reason

  Esi Edugyan (2012). “Half-Blood Blues: A Novel”, p.58, Macmillan

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• Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Suffering, Mud

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.389, editionNEXT.com

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• By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour, Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys. The Fruits of a Man's honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.

  Cato the Younger

  Art, Hurt, Men

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• Devotion signifies a life given, or devoted, to God. He therefore is the devout man, who lives no longer to his own will, or the way and spirit of the world, but to the sole will of God, who considers God in everything, who serves God in everything, who makes all the parts of his common life, parts of piety, by doing everything in the name of God, and under such rules as are conformable to His glory.

  William Law

  Life, Men, Names

  William Law, P. G. Stanwood (1978). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love”, p.47, Paulist Press

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• Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed.

  William Drummond

  Sweet, Kings, Children

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• Listen to me: Life is not about principles; it`s about happiness.` `But if you don`t have any principles, and if you don`t have faith, you can`t be happy at all,` said Kadife. `That`s true. But in a brutal country like ours, where human life is cheap, it`s stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.` `Actually, it`s the other way round. In a poor country, people`s sole consolation comes from their beliefs.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Country, Stupid, Rich Countries

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• As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.

  John Adams

  Government, People, Foundation

  John Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.193

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• There is nothing like understanding that your work has touched somebody. That is the sole purpose of acting. To be able to move and inspire. If I can do that for one person it is already changing the world and that makes me feel accomplished.

  Scott Cohen

  Moving, Understanding, Inspire

  Interview with Kale Slade, www.movievine.com. December 19, 2011.

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• As he looked up at the clouds or down at the precipice, he realized that this woman was the most important thing in his life; that she was the explanation, the sole reason for the existence of those rocks, that sky, that winter. If she were not there with him, it wouldn't matter if all the angels of heaven came flying down to comfort him--Paradise would make no sense.

  Paulo Coelho

  Angel, Winter, Clouds

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• Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

  Samuel Butler

  Nature, Men, Animal

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• He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arrogance, that is the sole providence of cats, dragons, and certain highborn women.

  Christopher Paolini

  Cat, Dragons, Arrogance

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.2358, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people together for a sole purpose. It was because of these lynchings that armed self-resistance was created. If white people knew black people were capable of fighting back then there was less of a chance that violence actually would break out.

  Assata Shakur

  Fighting, Lynching, Self

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• The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

  Andre Gide

  Art, Serenity, Rising

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.14, Routledge

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• If Islam's sole interest is the welfare of mankind, then Islam is the strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth.

  Mos Def

  Rights, Islam, Earth

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• The Whites have carried to these (colonial) people the worst that they could carry: the plagues of the world: materialism, fanaticism, alcoholism, and syphilis. Moreover, since what these people possessed on their own was superior to anything we could give them, they have remained themselves... The sole result of the activity of the colonizers is: they have everywhere aroused hatred.

  Adolf Hitler

  People, Giving, Hatred

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• God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.

  King Hussein I

  Believe, Ideas, Soul

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• However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Java, Serious, Language

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Music, Men, Order

  Igor Stravinsky “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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