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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Oscar Wilde

Death, Two, Cannot

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Ronald Reagan

Age, Judge, Said

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand

Men, Power, Government

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Mahatma Gandhi

Faith, Great, God

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Beauty, Truth

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
Che Guevara

Leaders, Turn, Cruel

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Character, Real, Worth

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
Mae West

Worry, Interest, Number

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
Oscar Wilde

Modern, Becomes

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Oscar Wilde

Shallow, Refuge

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Oscar Wilde

Hope, Live, Memory

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Oscar Wilde

Art, Admire, Schools

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Why, Knowing, Admire

There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill

Person, After, Effort

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, May, Through

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
Vince Lombardi

Winning, Everything

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum

Love, Dreams, Hope

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus

Remember, Once, Among

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Josh Billings

Love, Yourself, Earth

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
John F. Kennedy

Peace, War, Fact

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway

Good, Bad, After

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
John F. Kennedy

Defeat, Policy, Foreign

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank

Good, Character, True

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Paulo Coelho

Life, Happen, Understand

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats

Dreams, Poor, Feet

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
T. S. Eliot

Poetry, Means, Emotions

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thought, Thoughts, Try

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.
Muhammad Ali

Greatest, Pick, Round

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
Tupac Shakur

Dreams, Sleeping

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