Sole quotes
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
-- Adam Smith -
Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
-- Allen Tate -
The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.
-- Antoinette Brown Blackwell -
Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.
-- Boris Pasternak -
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I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation,
-- Brad Delp -
Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
My love for you is the sole image / Of God a human is allowed.
-- Else Lasker-Schuler -
It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.
-- Gustav Mahler -
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I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.
-- Henry Miller -
But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.
-- James Branch Cabell -
The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful observation of the nature of things is the sole foundation of all truth.
-- Jean-Baptiste Say -
Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary
-- Julian Barnes -
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The moment is the sole reality.
-- Karl Jaspers -
Where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation
-- Leon Trotsky -
The sole concern of learning is to seek one's original heart.
-- Mencius -
Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.
-- Ned Rorem -
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There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.
-- Paul Eldridge -
Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic.
-- Richard Hofstadter -
And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
Punctuality is the sole of business.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton -
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There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth.
-- Vaclav Havel -
A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
-- Victor Hugo -
Man is nature's sole mistake.
-- W. S. Gilbert -
Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
-- Walter Savage Landor -
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Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.
-- William Edward Hartpole Lecky -
Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.
-- William Wordsworth -
I am never happier than when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -
I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
-- Zadie Smith -
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Obviously I attach myself so much to my songwriting. If I didn't attach myself to that being my sole attribute, then I would be fine with those.
-- Luke Temple -
Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.
-- William Mortensen -
The one sole thing in myself in which I glory is that I see in myself nothing in which I can glory.
-- Catherine of Genoa
