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• But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madness;if you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Regret, Fate, Opportunity

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• We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Money, Cash, Forgotten

  Thomas Carlyle (1848). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.146

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• As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Dresses, Kingdoms

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1947). “Travel years”

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• They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.

  Juvenal

  Giving, Reason Why, Bliss

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• The sole reason to serve as a Christian is Jesus, yet He is easily lost in the various activities that consume our days.

  Dan B. Allender

  Christian, Jesus, Reason

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• We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Simple, Men, Oasis

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.32, Oxford University Press

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• I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation.

  Brad Delp

  Responsibility, Situation, Present Situation

  "Delp suicide note: 'I am a lonely soul'", www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 17, 2007.

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• Women alone always order sole. It means something.

  John Dos Passos

  Food, Mean, Order

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• Everything I've always done has been for the sole purpose of increasing my lovemaking output. A lot of guys won't admit that, but I do. I just want to make love.

  Rick Fox

  Guy, Making Love, Purpose

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• Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Thinking, Hypocrisy, Sin

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the seedplot he has to guard. The sole responsibility in each case is to prevent them from settling.

  John Churton Collins

  Responsibility, Evil, Bird

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• Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Remember, Loses

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• My care is for myself; Myself am whole and sole reality.

  Robert Browning

  Reality, Care, Whole

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.510, Wordsworth Editions

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• Speed Limit – A sign that tells you at what speed the car that's rapidly fading from view in your rearview mirror is going; a law that provides the sole means of support for many small-town police departments.

  Richard Turner

  Mean, Mirrors, Views

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• You must pray for yourself constantly. How could it be otherwise? We worship God by believing in Him, trusting Him, and loving Him wholeheartedly - and we can attain to that only through prayer. The sole object of our being here is that we may grow like Him - and we can do that only through prayer. The more we pray for ourselves the more power will our prayers have for any other purpose whatever; so praying for ourselves is the reverse of selfishness - it is truly glorifying God.

  Emmet Fox

  Prayer, Believe, Trusting Him

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• TV's "real" agenda is to be "liked," because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Tvs, Agendas

  Interview with Larry McCaffery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1993.

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• The time horizon may be too long for sole reliance on market solutions - but perhaps the inventiveness of the financial services industry will prove me wrong that point!

  John Bruton

  Long, Horizon, May

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• The glorious Vishnu is the sole refuge of mortals. He is Infinite Light, Love and Wisdom. He resides in the hearts of all beings. His Grace is invincible. He is in all. He is the Highest Truth. He is Infinite Bliss. He is the Protector. He is the Preserver. He is the Saviour.

  Sivananda

  Heart, Light, Grace

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• The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. ... For the political man, the value of a religion must be estimated less by its deficiencies than by the virtue of a visibly better substitute.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Attitude, Men

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• I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my paper - The Revolution - four years ago, the sole object of which was to educate all women to do precisely as I have done, rebel against your man-made, unjust, unconstitutional forms of law, that tax, fine, imprison and hang women, while they deny them the right of representation in the government... And I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old revolutionary maxim, that "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Law, Rebel

  An account of the proceedings on the trial of Susan B. Anthony on the charge of illegal voting at the Presidential election in Nov., 1872, and on the trial of Beverly W. Jones, Edwin T. Marsh and William B. Hall, the inspectors of elections by whom her vote was received, 1874.

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• Out here I had been putting what little money I had in Ocean Frontage, for the sole reason that there was only so much of it and no more, and that they wasent making any more.

  Will Rogers

  Real, Ocean, Littles

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• Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.

  Robert Toombs

  Government, Agents, Common

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• Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Teaching, Order, Jail

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• Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.

  St. Jerome

  Inquiry, Scripture, Christianity

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• Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth

  Eric Hoffer

  Truth, Sacrifice, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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