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There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered.

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

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."

It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies.

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

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Only Americans can hurt America.