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• There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. ... Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

  Vaclav Havel

  Art, Ideas, Political

  "Living in Truth". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really grasped and yet always flying before them, becomes at once their sole torment and their sole happiness. Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery which is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

  Claude Bernard

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.239, Courier Corporation

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• It is necessary to master Marxist theory and apply it, master it for the sole purpose of applying it. If you can apply the Marxist-Leninist viewpoint in elucidating one or two practical problems, you should be commended and credited with some achievement.

  Mao Zedong

  Two, Achievement, Purpose

  "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works".

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• The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific "truth." But what is the source of knowledge? Where do the laws that are to be tested come from? Experiment, itself, helps to produce these laws, in the sense that it gives us hints. But also needed is imagination to create from these hints the great generalizations--to guess at the wonderful, simple, but very strange patterns beneath them all, and then to experiment to check again whether we have made the right guess.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Math, Simple

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2015). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat”, p.45, Basic Books

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• The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.

  Saint Augustine

  Purpose, Gains, Merit

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• The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.

  Andy Grove

  Business, Moving, Skills

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• The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.

  Simone Weil

  Education, Real, Attention

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.32, Routledge

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• Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Passion, Loss, Men

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• These are my shoes that I designed from top to the very sole to the very top to the bottom. Laces.

  Ryan Lochte

  Shoes, Lace, Bottom

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• We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Home, Machines, Barbarians

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• I have no use for eight houses, 88 cars and 500 suits. I can't eat but one steak at a time. I don't want but one woman. It's silly to have as one's sole object in life just making money, accumulating wealth.

  Johnny Carson

  Silly, Eight, Car

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• God makes all chosen souls pass through a fearful time of poverty, misery, and nothingness. He desires to destroy in them gradually all the help and confidence they derive from themselves so that He may be their sole source of support, their confidence, their hope, their only resource.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Encouragement, Religious, Support

  Jean Pierre de Caussade (2011). “Abandonment to Divine Providence”, p.349, Ignatius Press

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• I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Believe, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.183, Rajpal & Sons

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• Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Devotion, Existence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.45, Oxford University Press

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• The sole aim of journalism should be service.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Journalism, Should, Aim

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.262, Rajpal & Sons

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• From day to day, from moment to moment, she increased so much this twofold plenitude that she attained an immense and inconceivable degree of grace. So much so, that the Almighty made her the sole custodian of his treasures and the sole dispenser of his graces. She can now ennoble, exalt and enrich all she chooses. She can lead them along the narrow path to heaven and guide them through the narrow gate to life. She can give a royal throne, sceptre and crown to whom she wishes.

  Louis de Montfort

  Christian, Giving, Heaven

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• I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.cliffsnotes.com

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• But Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement. For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sad, Whole, Mansions

  "Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop" l. 13 (1932)

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• Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart.

  Lord Byron

  Daughter, Heart, House

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.81, Cambridge University Press

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• You can be highly concentrated on a person, on a problem, and be so good at excluding all other material that that becomes not just the focus of your experience, but practically the sole content of your experience, everything else falling by the wayside.

  Antonio Damasio

  Fall, Focus, Problem

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• In the Heart's cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting 'I' shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by
  restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Heart, Self, Shining

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• Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any other citizen. It is both a public and a private duty to protect those rights. The Congress ought to exercise all its powers of prevention and punishment against the hideous crime of lynching, of which the negroes are by no means the sole sufferers, but for which they furnish a majority of the victims.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Mean, Exercise, Rights

  "First State of the Union Address" by Calvin Coolidge, 1923.

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• My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Death, Love Is, Inspire

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• Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!

  Sophie Swetchine

  Daughter, Children, Tears

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• To have loved and lost, either by that total disenchantment which leaves compassion as the sole substitute for love which can exist no more, or by the slow torment which is obliged to let go day by day all that constitutes the diviner part of love - namely, reverence, belief, and trust, yet clings desperately to the only thing left it, a long-suffering apologetic tenderness - this lot is probably the hardest any woman can have to bear.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Letting Go, Compassion, Long

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

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