Clarke's Third Law:
Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
If future generations are to remember us
more with gratitude than sorrow,
we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology.
We must also leave them a glimpse of the world
as it was created, not just as it looked
when we got through with it.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
It has become appallingly obvious that
our technology has exceeded our humanity.
- Albert Einstein
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Credulity - willingness to accept
unsupported statements without demanding proof -
is the greatest ally of the dictator and the demagogue.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
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The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
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Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
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Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
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Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag
The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
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It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
To be what we are,
and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end in life.
- Baruch Spinoza
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
There are a hundred valid reasons why something can't be done,
but only one reason, Commitment, why it can.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson
You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
Truth is not only violated by falsehood;
it may be equally outraged by silence.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha
Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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