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• I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

  Edward Gibbon

  Friendship, Happiness, Sex

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.5026, Delphi Classics

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• My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, Names, Done

  "Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations". Interview with Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2013.

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• I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.

  Missy Elliot

  Mother, First Love, Survivor

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• Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

  Adam Smith

  Purpose, May, Ends

  'Wealth of Nations' (1776) bk. 4, ch. 8

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• When you elevate the heels more so than you elevate the sole of the foot, you trigger a cascade of compensations in the knees and hips that cause tight hip flexors, and then those hip flexors cause lower-back pain.

  Tim Ferriss

  Pain, Feet, Knees

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• I run in a pair of New Balances with a thinner sole, but they're nothing like those barefoot shoes that show all five toes. I have a bit of a phobia about those.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Running, Shoes, Balance

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• To represent your country at a home Olympics is something special and I'm over the moon to be selected for Team GB. I was pleased to get the qualifying time in Berlin earlier this year and my sole focus is getting in the right shape for London.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Country, Team, Home

  "Paula Radcliffe hits out at 'frivolous' use of 2012 Olympics cash". www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2011.

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• My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

  Cole Porter

  Inspiration, Directors, Telephones

  1955 Interview, 8 Feb.

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• That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Sweet, Perfect, Fruition

  'Tamburlaine the Great' (1590) pt. 1, act 2, sc. 7

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• When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.

  Diego Maradona

  Team, Skins, Shirts

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• If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if the heel is positioned badly on the sole, you get into ballerina territory, where the body is pushed into a very strange posture. You can exaggerate the arch only so much.

  Christian Louboutin

  Feet, Looks, Arches

  "Head Over Heels" by Lisa Armstrong, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 1, 2009.

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• My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop.

  Pauline Hanson

  Mother, Running, Children

  "The Brexit factor: Why one in four voters abandoned the major parties". "Background Briefing" with David Lewis, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2016.

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• The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Literature, Substitutes

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• I've moved about 10 times over the past 15 years. I don't move for the sole purpose of getting rid of stuff. I'm not crazy. I also move so that I never have to wash any windows.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Crazy, Moving, Past

  "Seriously...I'm Kidding". Book by Ellen DeGeneres, 2011.

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• Officers must be made to care for their men. That is the sole duty of all officers.

  George S. Patton

  Men, Care, Made

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• The sole equality on earth is death.

  Philip James Bailey

  Equality, Earth

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.110

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• The ordinary man says in his ignorance, "My religion is the sole religion, my religion is the best." But when his heart is illuminated by the true knowledge, he knows that beyond all the battles of sects and of sectaries presides the one, indivisible, eternal and omnipresent Benediction.

  Ramakrishna

  Heart, Ignorance, Men

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• In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

  Henri Bergson

  Running, Art, Attitude

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• The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.

  Leo Burnett

  Educational, Organization, Marketing

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• I regret to say that my hand did, in fact, have an improper relationship with Chelsea Clinton. The incident represents a profound lapse of judgment for which my hand takes sole responsibility.

  William J. Clinton

  Regret, Responsibility, Hands

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• Don't go into business with the sole objective of making lot of money. If you put service, quality, and customer satisfaction first-the money will follow.

  Paul Clitheroe

  Quality, Satisfaction, Firsts

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• To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

  Lord Byron

  Inspirational, Literature, Sincere

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• We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families.

  Jeb Bush

  Florida, Government, Organization

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• If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

  John Burroughs

  Literature, Accepting, Guides

  John Burroughs (1913). “Writings”

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• Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Mean, Doubters, Skeptic

  Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.28, Vintage

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