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There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul. — Alan Keyes
The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development-- — C.S. Lewis
Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime — Zoltan Kodaly
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities,… — Octavio Paz
Empathy occurs when we suspend our single-minded focus of attention and instead adopt a double-minded foucus of attention. When our attention lapses into single focus,… — Simon Baron-Cohen
Within a single scene, it seems to be unwise to have access to the inner reflections of more than one character. The reader generally needs… — John Ciardi
There is absolutely no single aspect of one's personality that is more important to develop than empathy, which is not a skill at which men… — Chris Ware
Perhaps the single most important thing that we can do to undo the harm we have done is to fix firmly in our minds the… — James Lovelock
The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess. — Bill McKibben
There's no such thing as clean coal. It's non-existent. Theoretically, it might be possible, many years from now, to come up with a way to… — Al Gore
You must become a climate champion, a single-issue voter. You must take whatever action you can. You must use whatever influence you have wherever it… — Joseph J. Romm
The single most effective way to make a service as reliable as possible is to make it as simple as possible. Find the simplest solution… — Tom Limoncelli
In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model… — John Tukey
We are not a monolithic group of individuals, not every single person believes the exact same thing. — Joseph Crowley
The user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue and for justice,… — Robert Solow
All interesting issues in natural history are questions of relative frequency, not single examples. Everything happens once amidst the richness of nature. But when an… — Stephen Jay Gould
I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England… — Ian Botham
Is it permitted for Catholics to be present at, or to take part in, conventions, gatherings, meetings, or societies of non-Catholics which aim to associate… — Pope Pius X
The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any… — Franz Boas
A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols… — Edward Sapir

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