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The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
by Stanislaw Jerszy Lec

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec

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Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.
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Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie

There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller

We live in a wonderful world that is
full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror
which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

We could never learn to be brave and patient,
if there were only joy in the world.
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Only through experience of trial and suffering
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ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom,
do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom
and die the death for freedom.
- Charles G. Adams

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly

One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror.
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If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
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Attention is the ability we have to discriminate
and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.
- don Miguel Ruiz

The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson

Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield

Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard

Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein

We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men
is primarily based on mutual trust
and only secondarily on institutions
such as courts of justice and police.
- Albert Einstein

Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
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It's work only if I say it's work,
but it's play if I say it's fun.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz

We only see what we want to see,
and hear what we want to hear
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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

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
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Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain

We were given:
Two hands to hold.
Two legs to walk.
Two eyes to see.
Two ears to listen.
But why only one heart?
Because the other was given to someone else.
For us to find.
- Anonymous

I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
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To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing.
None is excluded, but excludes himself.
You have only to push aside the curtain.
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
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One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed,
but nature does not depend on us.
We are not the only experiment.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

There are a hundred valid reasons why something can't be done,
but only one reason, Commitment, why it can.
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor

You don't love someone for their looks,
or their clothes, or for their fancy car,
but because they sing a song only you can hear.
- Anonymous

Less is only more where more is no good.
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The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
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In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
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Things may come to those who wait,
but only the things left by those who hustle.
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You ask me if I keep a notebook
to record my great ideas.
I've only ever had one.
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It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
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After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela

Magic is natural to Wizards,
and only a little harder for the rest of us.
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A doctor can bury his mistakes
but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
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There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter
if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
- Anne Frank

I've developed a new philosophy...
I only dread one day at a time.
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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The only way to store information is by agreement.
The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind.
Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive.
Humans punish themselves endlessly
for not being what they believe they should be.
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others,
but we cannot accept and love ourselves.
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I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station,
through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
- George Washington Carver

Providence has its appointed hour for everything.
We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha

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