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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Only God can look at somebody's heart.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no "y" in it.

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

My doctor asked me if I smoked, and I said only when I'm working, golfing, or drinking. Then I realized the only time I don't smoke is when I'm home. I didn't even realize I'd become a smoker.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

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.

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

Hate is only a form love that hasn't found a way to express itself logically.

The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.