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It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.
Tupac Shakur

God, Judge, Struggle

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Good, Truth, Conscience

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.
Bill Cosby

Children, Sure, Proper

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Theodore Roosevelt

Great, Mind, Thoughts

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
Sivananda

Future, Mistakes, Mind

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
J. B. Priestley

Snow, Different, Another

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation.
Marilyn Monroe

Work, Working, Whole

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Knowing, Content

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Good, Friends, Spirit

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.
John Lennon

Cannot, Again, Artists

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
Aristotle

Change, Time, Mind

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
Warren Buffett

Place, Advice, Street

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.
Michael LeBoeuf

Life, Time, Money

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
Galileo Galilei

Help, Cannot, Themselves

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
Henry David Thoreau

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Theodore Roosevelt

Dreams, Time, Live

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
Aristotle

Life, Men, After

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
Confucius

Success, Makes, Interest

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken

Religion, Respect, Beautiful

There's only one Michael Jordan.
Michael Jordan

Jordan, Michael

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Charles R. Swindoll

Change, Attitude, Past

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking

Life, Nature, Human

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
Ernest Hemingway

Happiness, Good, Spring

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life, Silence, Night

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Power, Blame, Reason

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
Lao Tzu

Peace, Give, Others

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Bob Dylan

Equality, Die, Talk

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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Lord Chesterfield

Sure, Praise, Modesty

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Anais Nin

Life, Adversity, Lose

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Great, Men, Fact

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