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• There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.

  Zoketsu Norman Fischer

  Thinking, Long, Lists

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• One thing is clear - demons know they must submit to the superior authority in the name of Jesus Christ!

  T. B. Joshua

  Jesus, Names, Demon

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• If you remember one thing from talking to me, remember this: I am just a girl who makes noises - and I'm incredibly lucky that people happen to like those noises.

  Joss Stone

  Girl, Talking, People

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• On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not this moment? This one moment, now, is the only thing you can never escape from. The one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens. No matter how much your life changes. One thing is certain. Its always now. Since there is no escape from the now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life Changing, Friendly, Different

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.39, New World Library

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• And if there is one thing we can be sure of, it’s that extreme weather events like Superstorm Sandy, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, and the British floods—disasters that, combined, pummeled coastlines beyond recognition, ravaged millions of homes, and killed many thousands—are going to keep coming.

  Naomi Klein

  Home, Weather, Events

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it, you might take one thing from it. Until that was clear in my mind, I wasn't going to do one.

  Bobby Orr

  Book, Mind, Want

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• If one concentrates on one thing and does not get away from it ... he will possess strong, moving power.

  Cheng Yi

  Perseverance, Strong, Moving

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• Sports became a way for me to find my personality and identity in life. I had a lot of problems as a young kid like we all do with my own confidence, trying to grow up, and become a man and whatnot. Sports helped me get there. It helped me get my role in Rocky IV. It has helped me ever since in my movies and dealing with a lot of hard times between pictures and my life. I would say it's the one thing that's kept me going over the years.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Sports, Growing Up, Kids

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him.

  Umberto Eco

  Pain, Animal, Heaven

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have been committed by those human beings who thought of themselves as civilized. What, we must ask, does our civilization possess that is worth defending? One thing worth defending, I suggest, is the imperative to imagine the lives of beings who are not ourselves and are not like ourselves: animals, plants, gods, spirits, people of other countries, other races, people of the other sex, places and enemies.

  Wendell Berry

  Country, Sex, Animal

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• Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.

  Heraclitus

  Wisdom, Judgment, All Things

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• The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly wrong. For one thing, many of them were inventors who had come into business that way.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Men, Self, Way

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• One thing about cold weather: it brings out the statistician in everyone.

  Paul Theroux

  Weather, Cold, Statistician

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Thinking, Pigs, Together

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• If there's one thing I can't stand it's a hero without a cause. People like that just make trouble so that they can solve it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hero, People, Causes

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• One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Suffering, Principles, Purpose

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• If there's one thing I can say about my garden, it can always surprise me.

  David Hobson

  Garden, Essentials, Surprise

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• The Universe is a pretty big place... And the one thing I know about nature is it hates to waste anything. So I guess I'd say if it is just us, an awful lot of space is going to waste. The earth is not alone, it is not like a single apple on a tree; there are many apples on the tree, and there are many trees in the orchard.

  John Burroughs

  Hate, Moon, Apples

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• One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.

  John Paul Stevens

  Years, Law, Judging

  Bush v. Gore (dissenting opinion) (2000)

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• The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Book, Writing, Impossible

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• Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Answers, Novel

  Joan Didion (1984). “Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations”

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• Well, one thing you can say for masturbation... you certainly don't have to look your best.

  Mart Crowley

  Sex, Looks, Masturbation

  Mart Crowley (2003). “The Band Plays: The Boys in the Band [and Its Sequel] The Men from the Boys”, p.10, Taylor & Francis

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• One thing for sure - a sheep is not a creature of the air.

  Graham Chapman

  Sheep, Air, Creatures

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• There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

  Elizabeth I

  World, Causes, Royalty

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• Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

  Jalal Talabani

  Reality, Thinking, Wishful Thinking

  Interview with Jim Muir, news.bbc.co.uk. April 18, 2005.

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