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All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth
William Mathews
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man really; a man uncertain, puzzled and in the dark like ourselves
Willa Sibert Cather
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If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.
Saskya Pandita
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Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths
Mahatma Gandhi
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A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu
Subject: Beginning QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community.
James Q. Wilson
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Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community.
James Q. Wilson
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Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.
Honore de Balzac
Subject: Moments QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn`t ask me, I`d still have to say it.
George F. Burns
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The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it`s so rare.
Daniel P. Moynihan
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A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month`s study of books
Chinese Proverbs
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The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never; it is the units, the single individuals, that are the power and the might.
Charles H. Spurgeon
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Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?
Carrie P. Snow
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On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one single thought of serene faith, will be such as have honoured many hundreds of thousands of Buddhas, such as have planted their roots
Buddha
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Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity
Baltasar Gracian
Subject: Lies QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Andy Gates
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Leaving prices out of the picture is probably the source of more fallacies in economics than any other single misconception.
Thomas Sowell
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I`m never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don`t do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don`t even do that any more.
Dorothy Parker
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Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
Tim Berners-Lee
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The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
Dave Barry
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
Subject: Love QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
Victor Hugo
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The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
Victor Hugo
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If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you`ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
Atticus Finch
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The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
Dave Barry
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Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing ...
Thomas Jefferson
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I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man
Thomas Jefferson
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A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Subject: Cynicism QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me.
Erma Bombeck
