"Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical." — Lord Melbourne

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• It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
• No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the… — Hannah Arendt
• On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is… — Hank Aaron
• The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
• It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
• I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just… — Paul Auster
• Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
• That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'. — Richard Armour
• The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what… — Billie Joe Armstrong
• Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely… — Isaac Asimov
• The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the… — Mary Astell
• Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. — Chet Atkins

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