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• If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything - just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means.

  Michele Bachmann

  Motivation, Mean, Views

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• If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'

  Dave Barry

  Life And Love, Business, Humor

  Dave Barry (1999). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.

  Naomi Campbell

  People, Challenges, Looks

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• The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

  Lydia M. Child

  Love, Peace, Lying

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• When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Book, People, Looks

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• When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

  Stephen King

  Writing, Answers

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.17, Anchor

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• The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'

  Max Lucado

  Years, Choices, Grace

  Max Lucado (2014). “Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

  W. S. Merwin

  Poetry, Lost, Ends

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• The assurance of Heaven is never given to the person. And that's why at the core of the Christian faith is the grace of God. If there's one word I would grab from all of that, it's forgiveness - that you can be forgiven. I can be forgiven, and it is of the grace of God. But once you understand that, I think the ramifications are worldwide.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Christian, Thinking, Heaven

  "What Makes the Christian Message Unique?". Interview with Gordon Robertson, www.cbn.com.

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• I thought Marcus was going to be in my life forever. Then I thought I was wrong. Now he’s back. But this time I know what’s certain: Marcus will be gone again, and back again and again and again because nothing is permanent. Especially people. Strangers become friends. Friends become lovers. Lovers become strangers. Strangers become friends once more, and over and over. Tomorrow, next week, fifty years from now, I know I’ll get another one-word postcard from Marcus, because this one doesn’t have a period signifying the end of the sentence. Or the end of anything at all.

  Megan McCafferty

  Love, Next Week, Years

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.1233, Crown

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• I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our solitude and extinguishes our radiance: Nothing! I believe that that word does not point to our insignificance or our unhappiness, but on the contrary to our fulfillment and our divinity, since everything is in ourselves.

  Henri Barbusse

  Believe, Solitude, Doe

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• The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?" It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: "Nothing.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Book, Thoughtful, Past

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.245, Dial Press

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• Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.

  Flann O'Brien

  Said, Handiwork

  Flann O'Brien (2007). “The Complete Novels”, Everyman's Library

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• And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I.

  Ayn Rand

  Pride, Men, Joy

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.47, Xist Publishing

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• It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should at least have verified that message by his own signature. Is it not wonderful that not one word was written by Christ?

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religion, Atheism, Signatures

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1903). “What Must We Do to be Saved?: A Study of the Christian Religion, Its Creeds, and Its Sacred Book”

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• When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others.

  André Brink

  Lying, Silence, Wish

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• You never hear Jesus say in Pilate's judgement hall one word that would let you imagine that He was sorry that He had undertaken so costly a sacrifice for us. When His hands are pierced, when He is parched with fever, His tongue dried up like a shard of pottery, when His whole body is dissolved into the dust of death, you never hear a groan or a shriek that looks like Jesus is going back on His commitment.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Sorry, Commitment

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• This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Morning, Writing, Afternoon

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• This report has been difficult to write because it involves something that doesn't officially exist. It is well known that ever since the first flying saucer was reported in June 1947 the Air Force has officially said that there is no proof that such a thing as an interplanetary spaceship exists. But what is not well known is that this conclusion is far from being unanimous among the military and their scientific advisors because of the one word, proof; so the UFO investigations continue.

  Edward J. Ruppelt

  Military, Writing, June

  Edward J. Ruppelt (2011). “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects: The Original 1956 Edition”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time.

  Christopher Fry

  Men, Poetry, Heaven

  Time, New York, April 3, 1950.

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• Doeg, though without knowing how or why,
  Made still a blundering kind of melody;
  Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin,
  Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in;
  Free from all meaning whether good or bad,
  And in one word, heroically mad.

  John Dryden

  Knowing, Mad, Poetry

  John Dryden (1873). “Poetical Works: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.69

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• I said only one word, brought only one message: Love. Love - nothing else.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Life, Messages, Said

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Peter Bien (1988). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.478, Simon and Schuster

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• [...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection.

  Frederick Douglass

  Heart, Opportunity, Perfection

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• Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears. But the feeling Colin had was some horrible opposite of crying. It was you, minus something. He kept thinking about one word - forever - and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage.

  John Green

  Thinking, Opposites, Forever

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.16, Penguin

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• One word of truth outweighs the whole world.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Honesty, World, Ethics

  "Chinese newspaper in eye of censorship storm back on sale" by Jaime A. FlorCruz, www.cnn.com. January 10, 2013.

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