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• Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Happiness, Faith, Talent

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• We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Conceited, Thinking, America

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.280, Library of America

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• If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in ideas. If he could take what he wants wherever he could find it, as Euripides and Dante and Michelangelo and Shakespeare and Bach were free, his larder would always be full, and his cookery might be worth tasting.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Artist, Ideas, Effort

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• The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the legislature is the most formidable dread at present and will be for many years. That of the executive will come in its turn, but it will be at a remote period.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Years, Voting

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”

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• If you were meant to cure cancer or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children, you hurt me, you hurt the planet. You shame the angels who watch over you and you spite God Almighty, who created you and only you with your unique gifts, for the sole purpose of nudging the human race one millimeter further along its path back to God.

  Steven Pressfield

  Hurt, Children, Cancer

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• I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you're going to hear it in the music.

  Aimee Mann

  Motivation, Thinking, Greed

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• You have sole custody of your life. Who you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow. Embrace the possibility of transformation.

  Leeza Gibbons

  Deep Thought, Custody, Today

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• Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you a career. You own it, as a sole proprietor.

  Andy Grove

  Business, Careers, Matter

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• The moment is the sole reality.

  Karl Jaspers

  Inspirational, Reality, Cherish Every Moment

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• The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Spring, Character, Passion

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1861). “Lectures on the Philosophy of History”, p.21

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• Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and preserve it. His works are to be done freely, with the sole object of pleasing God.

  Martin Luther

  Exercise, May, Doe

  Martin Luther (1896). “Luther's Primary Works: Together with His Shorter and Larger Catechisms”

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• The sole motivating factor behind the death penalty is vengeance, not justice, and I firmly believe that a government that forbids killing among its citizens should not be in the business of killing people itself.

  Larry Flynt

  Believe, Government, People

  "Don't Execute the Man Who Paralyzed Me (Guest Column)" by Larry Flynt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 17, 2013.

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• [Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Men, Self

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• Men are like bulls. They cannot resist the red sole.

  Christian Louboutin

  Men, Bulls, Red

  "The True Story Of How Christian Louboutin Shoes Got Those Trademark Red Soles" by Tracey Lomrantz Lester, www.glamour.com. March 21, 2011.

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• The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Selfish, Ambition, Men

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• As has been stated, the purpose of money is to split barter into two parts so that the seller is free to find his source of supply later and elsewhere. This is the sole purpose of money. Any effort to use money to serve another purpose is perversive; and this statement condemns the entire managed money philosophy.

  E.C. Riegel

  Philosophy, Two, Effort

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• The truth is that the sole reason we don’t see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  School, Magic, World

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• If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist.

  Stephen Colbert

  Incentives, Corporations, Facts

  “Stephen Colbert must be stopped!” by Dean Obeidallah, www.cnn.com. February 22, 2012.

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• There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Space, Giving, Goal

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.15, Macmillan

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• We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery - by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press - their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Character, Light, Hands

  Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1857). “The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: Literati”, p.499

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• The foremost or indeed sole condition required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community is to love equality or to get men to believe you love it. Thus, the science of despotism, which was once so complex, has been simplified and reduced, as it were, to a single principle.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Believe, Men, Order

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1847). “Democracy in America”

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• The red sole was born from red nail polish. I am giving back to beauty what the shoes took from the nails many years ago.

  Christian Louboutin

  Years, Shoes, Giving

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• The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Liberty, Pedestal

  Letter to General Thaddeus Kosciusko, February 26, 1810.

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• Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.

  Olympia Snowe

  Taken, Groups, Campaigns

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• To me, the capacity to earn money has never been a measurement of success. It is my belief that people must develop a philosophy early in life which permits them to have as much pleasure, enjoyment and satisfaction now as is possible without injuring themselves or others. Money can help to do this, but it is not and must not become the sole aim of a person's existence. We all know what happened to King Midas.

  Rudy Vallee

  Success, Kings, Philosophy

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