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Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.
I only made one film with a score, and I hate it. I hate the score of that film. It's not coming from me. I had nothing to do with it.
I was supposed to do only one or two episodes of 'Big Little Lies,' but I realized I couldn't just step away.
A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.
If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!
Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.
The child often sees only what he already knows. He projects the whole of his verbal thought into things. He sees mountains as built by men, rivers as dug out with spades, the sun and moon as following us on our walks.
The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me.
Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.
After Joe passed away in the war, it seemed only natural that Jack and Bobby and then Teddy might pursue office as well. Public service was part of our DNA from our earliest years.
Although it's only the beginning of the championship, I am very surprised at my capability.
It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
We would much prefer to see ownership in the hands of the Maple Group, if only because we would much rather see Canadian ownership of our stock exchange. What we are first of all interested in is making sure that Montreal is able to preserve that niche or expertise.
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
By the time I got to kindergarten, I was surprised to find out I was the only kid with a turkey vulture.
Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.
One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed.
I'm constantly exchanging ideas with new artists. Honestly, with Jay-Z, our only interaction was a brief hello after I signed.
One year after the United States led the invasion of Iraq, the country remains extremely dangerous not only to our troops, but also to the stability of the world.
Valuations are actually quite simple to grasp. A company is only worth what two acquirers are willing to pay for it. Don't you just need to find that one buyer? If there is only one potential company interested in buying your startup, chances are you won't be hearing the word 'billion' in the offer.
In my experience, there are only two valid reasons to take a company public: access to growth capital and investor fatigue.
We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil every year, but we only have reserves, including that which has not been pumped, of about 3 percent of the oil reserves in the world.
Before I came to Barcelona, I only thought about one facet of the game: destroying. My qualities were completely defensive, and I wouldn't take responsibility for organising my team's game, our attacks.
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.
The only focus for me is on my preparation, my execution, and what I can do for the team.
I personally make sure that my songs are all original without any technical help, and only when that happens that I get complete satisfaction as a singer.
The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.
We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie.
I'm a minimalist kind of person: only one pair of boots, one pair of pants, and if I could, only one shirt.
Rian Johnson's 'Looper' is inventive, entertaining, and thought-provoking in every way a movie can be. It is in fact the kind of movie that reminds us why we watch them and make them, a beautifully told story that deserves to be not only remembered, but acknowledged for its writing.
The only reason I ever do an independent film is that I believe in it, and I think it has something special to offer. I'm certainly not doing it to be a millionaire.
What I aspire to do, and what I try the hardest to do, is write stuff that's very personal in its way. I figure I can only say things the way I say them, so I'm trying to do something that is kind of anti-generic.
Americans are struck by lightning with greater frequency than they commit voter impersonation fraud, and that's the only kind of fraud that photo ID requirements could have any hope of preventing.
As the state's chief elections officer, it is my job to make sure that only eligible voters vote, but also that every eligible voter has the opportunity to vote.
A lot of states that pass voter ID laws have little to no evidence of in-person voter impersonation fraud, which is the only kind of fraud that voter ID laws could guard against.
The 76ers currently play very good basketball, and we don't. However, we are still only one win behind them. If we continue to improve, we should be on the top of our division at the end of the regular season.
The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.
I want to show that drama doesn't lie only in blood and destroyed buildings but in daily life, in ordinary human beings.
I'm happy I can sit home in my office and make up stories about superheroes. And I only have to deal with a pretty limited amount of people to get those comics produced.
'Scalped' No. 1 was only the third comic script I'd ever written. I really learned a lot about writing on the fly with that series.
Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands.
Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.
Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one.
Only Congress can treat the gaping wound that is our broken immigration system.
Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people.
Only with the honour thus acquired can we earn the respect of our other compatriots as well.
So not only do we need to deal with threats as they emerge, we have to be thinking in anticipation of future threats, and the things we do have to be things that enable the system to continue to work.
I'm just opposed to a pure inflation-only mandate in which the only thing a central bank cares about is inflation and not employment.
I'm not sure if I should say this, but after watching 'Bareilly Ki Barfi', I really wanted Rajkummar Rao to notice me, so I commented on all his photos. He's the only person I've asked for a photo with.
The transgressive nature of biography is rarely acknowledged, but it is the only explanation for biography's status as a popular genre.
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws, and darling nephews.
I have reared, or helped to rear, five children and the scariest bit, bar none, is the learning-to-drive part. It has filled me with anxiety not only about the children, but also about my former self and my friends.
We have secrets, and we have the same secrets that criminals have. Sometimes the only difference between a criminal and a law-abiding citizen is that somebody found out the criminal's secret.
I love 'Scandal.' It's my favorite show - it's really - the only one I really watch.
The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.
My mom was one of the original designers for Coach in the eighties, and she designed some classics, including the City Bag. It's the only bag I use!
Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.
I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.
To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.
I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.
I believe the only way we'll be able to solve infant mortality - and other huge social problems - is by designing solutions for those with the greatest intent to carry it out.
I think I'm the only 65-year-old actress in Los Angeles who hasn't had plastic surgery, so somebody's gotta play the old-lady parts!
I never show my books to Ricky. His writing is very different, and anyway, he's only read one novel in his life: 'The Catcher in the Rye.'
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