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We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.

I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.