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• If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!

  Dana Hill

  Mean, Cutting, Winning

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• In this world of uncertainty and woe, one thing remains unchanged: Fresh, canned, pureed, dried, salted, sliced, and served with sugar and cream, or pressed into juice, the tomato is reliable, friendly, and delicious. We would be nothing without it.

  Laurie Colwin

  Friendly, Would Be, Tomatoes

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• We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is not said: that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the fear of cravens. Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Evil, Suffering

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.

  Robert Harbison

  Mean, Men, Garden

  Robert Harbison (1977). “Eccentric Spaces”, p.20, MIT Press

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• The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for... The one thing that can't be taken from us, even by death, is the love we give away before we go.

  Forrest Church

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Love and Death". Book by Forrest Church, www.washingtonpost.com. September 2008.

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• One thing to remember is to talk to the animals. If you do, they will talk back to you. But if you don't talk to the animals, they won't talk back to you, then you won't understand, and when you don't understand you will fear, and when you fear you will destroy the animals, and if you destroy the animals, you will destroy yourself.

  Chief Dan George

  Native American, Animal, Remember

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• Remember how the Lord rebukes Martha when He says: 'You are anxious and troubled about many things: one thing alone is needful' (Lk. 10:41-42) ? to hear the divine word; after that, one should be content with anything that comes to hand.

  Evagrius Ponticus

  Christian, Hands, Remember

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• The natural world around us shows the way to relief. All of life is maintained by the sun, by the air, by water, by the earth and its resources. And to whom was the sun given? To everyone. If there is any one thing that people do have in common, it is the gift of sunlight. But as the early Christians said, "If the sun were not hung so high, someone would have claimed it long ago."

  Eberhard Arnold

  Christian, Air, Long Ago

  Eberhard Arnold, Johann Christoph Arnold (2000). “Eberhard Arnold: Writings Selected with an Introduction”, p.94, The Plough Publishing House

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• Life and the environment are one thing, not two, and people, as all life, are immersed in the one system. When we influence nature, we influence ourselves; when we change nature, we change ourselves.

  Daniel Botkin

  Two, People, Environmental

  Daniel Botkin (2012). “The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered”, p.324, Oxford University Press

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• The next president of the United States needs to figure one thing out quickly - how to be commander in chief. And I think I could do that.

  Lindsey Graham

  Thinking, President, United States

  "Sen. Graham on security of our nation's capital, 2016 plans; Sen. Sanders ready to challenge Hillary Clinton?". www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2015.

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• One thing that's paramount in my life is that I am alone. I'm a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don't feel lonely. And I even like my own company. But when I'm alone, it's to read or write. I'm in my thoughts. Mostly I'm learning.

  Agnes Denes

  Lonely, Writing, Loner

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't think I've ever gone on stage to be an asshole. I know one thing, from the past, and that's that my intentions always began in a pure way. I really want to just try and play the songs.

  Ryan Adams

  Song, Thinking, Past

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. July 23, 2007.

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• One thing I've learned from 35 years in the classroom is that people learn best when they are laughing, when they are emotionally hit, that it's both the brain and the heart.

  Robert Reich

  Heart, Years, People

  "Robert Reich: Making people laugh about economic inequality". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. October 16, 2013.

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• The man who seeks one thing in life and but one, May hope to achieve it before life is done; But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows, A harvest of barren regrets.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Regret, Ambition, Men

  "Lucile". Book by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, 1860.

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• January has only one thing to be said for it: it is followed by February. Nothing so well becomes its passing.

  Katharine Tynan

  February, January, Passing

  Katharine Tynan (1913). “Twenty-five Years: Reminiscences”

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• One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

  Quintilian

  Natural, Capacity, Efficacy

  Quintilian (1805). “Quintilian's institutes of eloquence ...”, p.7

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• If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Conceited, Sea

  The Innocents Abroad Ch. III

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• It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Able, Painter, Competence

  Leonardo da Vinci (2015). “A Treatise on Painting: the Painting Art”, p.55, 谷月社

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• It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If it isn't one thing--it's another! It's always something.

  Gilda Radner

  Father, Said, Ifs

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• There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is one thing to be at liberty to do what we will, and another thing to be tied up to do what we must.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Liberty, Should, Submit

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• It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile education, is to provide, against the age of five and twenty, a mind well regulated, active, and prepared to learn. Whatever will inspire habits of industry and observation, will sufficiently answer this purpose.

  William Godwin

  Children, Inspire, Mind

  William Godwin (1797). “The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays”, p.78

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• When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of life: to become a writer.

  William Styron

  Jobs, Autumn, Firsts

  William Styron (2015). “My Generation: Collected Nonfiction”, p.397, Random House

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• In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is not nearly so large as people think.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Thinking, People

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• If there is one thing Britain should learn from the last 50 years, it is this: Europe can only get more important for us.

  Tony Blair

  Years, Europe, Important

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• Never do but one thing at a time, and never put off till to-morrow what you can do today.

  Lope de Vega

  Today, Tomorrow, Can Do

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