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It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death. — Maimonides
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose. — Jeffery Deaver
The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in… — George Leigh Mallory
Everyone who has observed human behavior for more than thirty continuous seconds seems to have noticed that people are strongly, perhaps even primarily, perhaps even… — Daniel Gilbert
The vocational approach at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) helps build grit in students. It teaches them how to be single-minded in… — Jonah Lehrer
In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single, homogenous surface, the… — Italo Calvino
Be guided by the Spirit. I have said so many times to my Brethren that the Spirit is the most important single element in this… — Ezra Taft Benson
I don't know of a single instance of these Arab freedom fighters holding up pictures of bin Laden. I know many instances of them displaying… — Paul Wolfowitz
The Nile, draining out into the Mediterranean. The bright lights of Cairo announce the openingÂ of the north-flowing riverâ€™s delta, with Jerusalemâ€™s answering high beams… — Chris Hadfield
Grit is not synonymous with hard work. It involves a certain single-mindedness. An ungritty prison inmate will mount a daring new escape attempt every month,… — Chip Heath
The religion of the short poem, in every age and in every literature, has a single commandment: Less is always more. The short poem rejects… — Charles Simic
At the heart of the message of the Savior of the world is a single, glorious, wonderful, still largely untried concept. In its simplest terms… — James E. Faust
Our great Constitution has been beaten and torn until now it hangs by a single thread, and that thread is our franchise to vote. — Ezra Taft Benson
Make certain decisions only once . . . We can make a single decision about certain things that we will incorporate in our lives and… — Spencer W. Kimball
Snowden has enough [sic] information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had. The U.S.… — Glenn Greenwald
EVERY SINGLE DANCER, SINGER and BAND MEMBER is a BRILLIANT SOLO ARTIST — Ben Brantley
Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they sometimes lack is… — Rose Tremain
They play it safe, are quick to assassinate what they do not understand. They move in packs ingesting more and more fear with every act… — Erykah Badu
Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we… — Erykah Badu
No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation. — Frank Norris

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