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 Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary....
Edgar Allen Poe
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
One can win a war with either atomic weapons or by simply placing a 9mm pistol in the right room.
Nick Lappos
One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.
Anatole Rapoport
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Virginia Woolf
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual lust.
Ruth Smythers
- Marriage advice for women, 1894
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
Woodrow Wilson
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
James Watson
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