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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
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If the present Congress errs in too much talking,
how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people
send one hundred and fifty lawyers,
whose trade it is to question everything,
yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
- Thomas Jefferson
A man who views the world the same at fifty
as he did at twenty
has wasted thirty years of his life.
- Muhammad Ali
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule,
where fifty-one percent of the people
may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
- attributed to Thomas Jefferson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.
- Wayne Gretzky
The glow of one warm thought
is to me worth more than money.
- Thomas Jefferson
Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
- e. e. cummings
Today... maybe I can take one step
on that profoundly complex path to peace.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
One service to need heals an ancient wound.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
One must know not just how to accept a gift,
but with what grace to share it.
- Maya Angelou
One movement toward light becomes a clear signpost on a long road.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,
every hill and mountain shall be made low,
the rough places will be made straight
and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed
and all flesh shall see it together.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
I Am One With Spirit and All Creation -
I give thanks for the unity of all creation
and for everything that has brought me to this moment.
I release my entire being to the gentle nurture of Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
- The Buddha
One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have two ears and one mouth so that
we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer
Curiosity keeps one young - in thought and in action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am one with the power and wisdom of the Universe.
I have all that I need.
- Louise L. Hay
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Pick up a stone that feels good to you
and is small enough to hold in one hand.
Consider how long that stone has been around
and what enormous pressure it has experienced.
Draw strength from its long history.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Whether one believes in a religion or not,
and whether one believes in rebirth or not,
there isn't anyone who doesn't
appreciate kindness and compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
Even if you are a minority of one,
the truth is the truth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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