Sole Quotes - Page 27

• ...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Deprived, Loses

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• The future of a movement is conditioned by the fanaticism, yes, the intolerance, with which its adherents uphold it as the sole correct movement, and push it past other formations of a similar sort.

  Adolf Hitler

  Past, Movement, Intolerance

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• We bear the sole, relentless tenderness.

  Pablo Neruda

  Bears, Relentless, Tenderness

  Pablo Neruda, “‘in The Wave-Strike Over Unquiet Stones’”

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• I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Taste, Creation, Relation

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.1380, Delphi Classics

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• A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure only one's ego and desires ... Having a clear faith, according to the credo of the church, is often labeled as fundamentalism. Yet relativism, that is, letting oneself being carried 'here and there by any wind of doctrine,' appears as the sole attitude good enough for modern times.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Attitude, Wind, Ego

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• The door of opportunity swings wide open in our country. Through it, in constant flow, go those who toil. America recognizes no aristocracy save those who work. The badge of service is the sole requirement for admission to the ranks of our nobility.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, Opportunity, Swings

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• From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea - written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo - "There is no substitute for victory!"

  Douglas MacArthur

  Ideas, Australia, Victory

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• Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Men, Years

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• Your sole purpose in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless.

  Sivananda

  Life, Purpose, Realization

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• During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced on me was the determination never as long as I lived to read a book on Geology.

  Charles Darwin

  Determination, Book, Science

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• We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what we are for. We are machines for propagating DNA, and the propagation of DNA is a self-sustaining process. It is every living object's sole reason for living.

  Richard Dawkins

  Life, Science, Dna

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• Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.

  Henri Poincare

  Truth, Teaching, Science

  The Foundations of Science Science and Hypothesis (p. 127)

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• The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world, to the sole disposal of a magistrate, created and circumstanced, as would be a president of the United States.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Wise, War, President

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1831). “The Federalist on the New Constitution”, p.373

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• My boy, the 'quenelles de sole' were splendid, but the peas were poor. You should shake the pan gently, all the time, like this.

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Boys, Vegetables, Poor

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• I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.

  Robert Henri

  Purpose, Alive, Privilege

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• if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, War, Believe

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.853, Wordsworth Editions

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• During years of working for a living, I have experienced much of the legal and social discrimination reserved for women in this country, I have been refused service in public restaurants, ordered out of public gathering places and turned away from apartment rentals. All for the clearly stated, sole reason that I am a woman.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Years, Gathering

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• All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

  Blaise Pascal

  Charity, Scripture, Aim

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.227, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Often thoughts are given to me with the sole purpose of giving them away.

  Holly Near

  Giving, Purpose, Given

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• Experiment is the sole judge of the validity of any idea.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Ideas, Judging, Experiments

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• I think we have got to start again and go right back to first principles. The argument I shall advance, surprising as it may seem coming from the author of the earlier chapters, is that, for an understanding of the evolution of modern man, we must begin by throwing out the gene as the sole basis of our ideas on evolution. If there is only one Creator who made the tiger and the lamb, the cheetah and the gazelle, what is He playing at? Is he a sadist who enjoys spectator blood sports? ... Is he manuvering to maximize David Attenborough's television ratings?

  Richard Dawkins

  Sports, Men, Thinking

  Richard Dawkins (2006). “The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition”, p.191, OUP Oxford

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• The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Judging, Tests, Experiments

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Desktop Edition Volume I”, Basic Books

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• I did 15 shows a week when I lived in New York. I did five shows on a Friday and seven shows on a Saturday. It was everything I did and it was my sole source of income.

  Ray Romano

  Friday, New York, Income

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• Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.

  William Mortensen

  Facts, Emotion, Materials

  William Mortensen, George Dunham (1956). “Model”

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• In our modern society the image and mythic process has been taken over by corporations that directly control advertising and, indirectly, the entertainment industry. Powerful erotic images are used for the sole purpose of selling consumer products; the side effects of this commercialization have a profound impact on the sexual imagination and identity of vast numbers of people.

  Robert Lawlor

  Powerful, Taken, Numbers

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