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• God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.

  King Hussein I

  Believe, Ideas, Soul

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• My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop.

  Pauline Hanson

  Mother, Running, Children

  "The Brexit factor: Why one in four voters abandoned the major parties". "Background Briefing" with David Lewis, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2016.

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• The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

  Andre Gide

  Art, Serenity, Rising

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.14, Routledge

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• I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

  Edward Gibbon

  Friendship, Happiness, Sex

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.5026, Delphi Classics

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• When you elevate the heels more so than you elevate the sole of the foot, you trigger a cascade of compensations in the knees and hips that cause tight hip flexors, and then those hip flexors cause lower-back pain.

  Tim Ferriss

  Pain, Feet, Knees

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• I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.

  Missy Elliot

  Mother, First Love, Survivor

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• If Islam's sole interest is the welfare of mankind, then Islam is the strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth.

  Mos Def

  Rights, Islam, Earth

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• I've moved about 10 times over the past 15 years. I don't move for the sole purpose of getting rid of stuff. I'm not crazy. I also move so that I never have to wash any windows.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Crazy, Moving, Past

  "Seriously...I'm Kidding". Book by Ellen DeGeneres, 2011.

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• If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

  John Burroughs

  Literature, Accepting, Guides

  John Burroughs (1913). “Writings”

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• The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.

  Leo Burnett

  Educational, Organization, Marketing

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• In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

  Henri Bergson

  Running, Art, Attitude

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• When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.

  Diego Maradona

  Team, Skins, Shirts

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• That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Sweet, Perfect, Fruition

  'Tamburlaine the Great' (1590) pt. 1, act 2, sc. 7

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• I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

  Zadie Smith

  Dictionary

  Zadie Smith (2001). “White Teeth”, p.551, Penguin UK

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• Sunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go. The dogs of the field and the cats of the kitchen are loved because soon they must depart. These are not the sole reasons, but at the heart of morning welcomes and afternoon laughters is the promise of farewell. In the gray muzzle of an old dog we see goodbye. In the tired face of an old friend we read long journeys beyond returns.

  Ray Bradbury

  Goodbye, Dog, Morning

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• Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.

  Jane Addams

  Fear, Government, Self

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• The Whites have carried to these (colonial) people the worst that they could carry: the plagues of the world: materialism, fanaticism, alcoholism, and syphilis. Moreover, since what these people possessed on their own was superior to anything we could give them, they have remained themselves... The sole result of the activity of the colonizers is: they have everywhere aroused hatred.

  Adolf Hitler

  People, Giving, Hatred

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• Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Night, Pigs

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Java, Serious, Language

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, Names, Done

  "Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations". Interview with Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2013.

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• Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

  Adam Smith

  Purpose, May, Ends

  'Wealth of Nations' (1776) bk. 4, ch. 8

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• I run in a pair of New Balances with a thinner sole, but they're nothing like those barefoot shoes that show all five toes. I have a bit of a phobia about those.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Running, Shoes, Balance

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• To represent your country at a home Olympics is something special and I'm over the moon to be selected for Team GB. I was pleased to get the qualifying time in Berlin earlier this year and my sole focus is getting in the right shape for London.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Country, Team, Home

  "Paula Radcliffe hits out at 'frivolous' use of 2012 Olympics cash". www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2011.

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• My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

  Cole Porter

  Inspiration, Directors, Telephones

  1955 Interview, 8 Feb.

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• The sole equality on earth is death.

  Philip James Bailey

  Equality, Earth

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.110

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