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“One of Governor Romney's aides today on television said that Governor Romney, after he wins the primaries, will be like an [Etch A Sketch] - you take whatever he said and you can shake it up and it will be gone, and he's going to draw a whole new picture for the general election.”
“One of greatest thieves this world has is procrastination, and he is still at large. Are we aiding and abetting the criminal?”
“One of Hellenistic Jewry's signature achievements was the Septuagint, the translation of Tanakh into Koine (common) Greek. Compiled between the third and first centuries BCE, it almost certainly represents the work of Alexandrian Jewry, who needed scripture in Greek because they no longer spoke or wrote Hebrew. The Septuagint makes some formal changes, reordering books and including new material. Its existence offers witness to the religious power that Jews in the last centuries BCE were according written texts, a significant moment in the process by which Jewish identity embraced Torah and Judaism became a "religion of the book." Even so, the Septuagint has arguably had a greater abiding significance for Christianity than for Judaism. The Old Testament used it, rather than Tanakh, for a basis; New Testament writers quoted it (rather than Hebrew versions). Catholic and Orthodox Christians would accept its additions as a second set of fully authoritative (deuterocanonical) books. Most Protestants would not, although some printed them in a separate section of their Bibles. The early Church forged its principal doctrines in conversation with it. The legend that seventy-two translators "harmoniously" produced identical copies has a Christian provenance: Epiphanius, a fourth-century bishop who defended the Septuagint's superiority against later Jewish revisions. As its importance for Christians rose, Jews abandoned it to assert the sole legitimacy of the Hebrew text.”
Source: The Abrahamic Religions: A Very Short Introduction: A Very Short Introduction
“One of her duties as a widow, she had learned, was to provide dramatic proof to the neighboring wives that, bad as their husbands might be at times, life without them would be worse.”
Source: While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction
“One of her hands was at her hip, touching her belt, as though she might draw the weapon sheathed there. The idea was hilarious, He certainly hadn't buckled on a sword in preparation for coming here. He wasn't even sure he could stay standing long enough to swing, and he had only beaten her when he was sober because she let him.
Jude looked up at him, and in her eyes, he recognised a hate big enough and wide enough and deep enough to match his own. A hate you could drown in like a vat of wine.
Too late to hide it, she lowered her head in the pretense of defence.
Impossible, Cardan thought. What had she to be angry about, she who had been given everything he was denied? Perhaps he had imagined it. Perhaps he wanted to see his reflection on someone else's face and had perversely chosen hers.
With a whoop, he rode in her direction, just to watch her and her sister run. Just to show her that if she did hate him, her hatred was as impotent as his own.”
Source: How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
“One of her most reached-for truisms was that some percentage of jobs were indistinguishable from one another, as they all involved the sending of emails assessing the job itself.”
Source: Leave the World Behind
“One of her secret fantasies had been that, as a girl who could code, she would work in the one place where a geeky fat girl could get dates. It had not been entirely untrue. But as someone had pointed out to her in school, although the odds are good, the goods are odd.”
“One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture; A pale blue eye with a film over it.”
Source: The Poe Consequence
“One of his eyes was swollen shut, and his nose was thick and purple. It made her want to cry. And to kiss him. (Because apparently everything made her want to kiss him. Park could tell her that he had lice and leprosy and parasitic worms living in his mouth and she would still put on fresh ChapStick. God.)”
Source: Eleanor & Park
“One of his [Freud] favourite doctrines was that of 'rationalization', which may be put as follows. We pride ourselves on being reasonable in our beliefs and actions; when we accept a belief, we like to think that we have adopted it on good grounds; when we decide on an action, we like to think that we have done so because it is right; and if challenged, we readily produce reasons. But these reasons turn out, when examined, to be 'rationalizations' merely, that is, attempts to dress up in rational guise beliefs or actions that sprang, not from reasons at all, but from non-rational causes. [...] What fastened the attention of Freud was that man continually goes wrong. His religious beliefs record an attempt, 'patently infantile', to find a father-substitute; his philosophical systems are projections upon nature of his half hidden desires; his scientific and artistic pursuits mark the sublimation of frustrated instincts; his political convictions are apologies for, or protests against his position in society; even his ethics is an uneasy compromise between selfish desire and group pressures. 'I am sure only of one thing,' Freud wrote, 'that the judgments of value made by mankind are immediately determined by their desire for happiness; in other words, that those judgments are attempts to prop up their illusions with arguments.”
Source: Reason & Analysis
“One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.”
Source: A Fire Upon The Deep
“One of his hands move away from my face to flatten against my back, pulling me closer to him as he deepens the kiss. He parts my lips under his as my mind seems to sign quietly in content. I kiss him back as fiercely as he kisses me, unable to control the infatuation that rushes through me - feeling almost like fireworks. Not so careful anymore.
Little shivers of urgency shoot through me. I push off the window, pressing closer to him. The rush of sensation that is coursing through me feels like I've drunk a gallon of coffee. It feels like an electric buzz is flooding between us.”
Source: Alone in Paris
“One of his hands run up my neck and through my hair, the other supporting my waist. I'm held up by a dizzying suspension, feeling like I could sprout wings and fly. Time stands still and the only thing I can think about is the taste of his mouth, his tongue, spicy and sweet from the saffron, and how I hunger for more. His hand cups my ass, and he leans into me, kissing my neck. My hips grind into him. This kiss, this moment, really proves I'd never experienced passion like this before. It's more than a connection between bodies; it's like a recipe with the perfect balance of ingredients.”
Source: The Spice Master at Bistro Exotique
“One of his high school teachers wrote the following in an evaluation of him: "He believes that 'IQ tests are a poor way to judge people's abilities, failing as they do to account for magic, which has its own importance, both by itself and as a complement to logic,' I suggest a conference with his parents.' (pg. 11)”
Source: The Bridges Of Madison County
“One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.”
“One of his primary duties as the High King appears to be reminding her she isn't personally responsible for solving every tedious problem and carrying out every tedious execution in all of Elfhame. He wouldn't mind causing a little torment here or there, of a non-murdery sort, but her view of their positions seems overburdened with chores.”
Source: How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
“One of his [Rebbe Mikhal of Zlotchev] prayers: I have but one request; may I never use my reason against truth.”
Source: Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters
“One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the Messiah?" "No," answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No," Buddha replied. "Then are you a teacher?" the student persisted. "No, I am not a teacher." "Then what are you?" asked the student exasperated. "I am awake," Buddha replied.”
“One of his tears fell in my mouth, where it became a blue sapphire, source of strength, source of strength and eternal hope.”
“One of history's iron law is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Once people get used to a certain luxury, they take it for granted. Then they begin to count on it. Finally they reach a point where they can't live without it.”
“One of history's most dangerous games begins with dividing the world into the good guys and the bad guys and ends with using any means necessary to take the villains out.”
Source: God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter
“One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew.”
“One of humanity's prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender
and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.”
Source: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
“One of, if not the only source of all sadness is the continuous recognition of what's missing”
“One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.”
“One of ISIS' biggest propaganda coups was the beheadings of the aid workers and journalists. Is [Emni], the group that is exporting fighters overseas, also the one that was holding James Foley and John Cantlie and Kayla Mueller?”
“One of its primary roles is in motivation and reward. You probably know of dopamine because of its reputation as the brain’s pleasure juice. When you feel pleasure, you are getting squirted on by dopamine.”
Source: The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion
“One of Johnny’s head writers, Larry Klein, went directly to Carson and told him that Ed Weinberger and Henry Bushkin were trying to steal his company.”
Source: Johnny Carson: A Taut Portrait of a Complex Man Revealing the True Johnny Carson
“One of kindness and integrity. I know I fail constantly, but I’m working towards being a reliable and worthy contributor to the world.”
“One of life's challenging realizations is that sometimes you outgrow your friends.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“One of life's contradictions: how human beings were at once entirely resilient and impossibly fragile. One decision could stay with you forever, and yet you could live through almost anything.”
Source: Saints for All Occasions
“One of life’s great curse is our inability to control who we fall in love with. Sometimes we devote so much time and love to people and things that don’t return it or deserve it!”
“One of life’s greatest lessons is learning from our own mistakes.”
“One of life’s harsh truths is that we are often judged by the very people who excel at escaping accountability for their own wrongdoings or actions. We are often judged by the worst kind of people.”
“One of life’s ironies is that the more honest and vulnerable you are, the more others try to discredit you as a fraud and a fake. Shut them up by not caring.”
Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
“One of life's machinations is to make some people both rich and unhappy, that is, jointly fragile and deprived of hope.”
“One of life's most nurturing notions is to realise that this is a finite and unpredictable experience.”
“One of life's most surprising journeys is the journey in which we discover that the people we label as ordinary are in reality extremely extraordinary!”
“One of life's mysteries is that we tend to get more things done when we have less time to do them, and fewer things are done when we have more time to do them.”
“One of life’s simplest pleasures is witnessing someone smile at you
for the first time.”
Source: You Are Here
“One of life's sorest tragedies is that the people who brim with confidence are always the wrong people.”
Source: I Can Make You Hate
“One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.”
“One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.”
“One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“One of life's fundamental truths states, "Ask and you shall receive." As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.”
“One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.”
Source: The Tommyknockers
“One of life's intriguing paradoxes is that hierarchical social order makes cheap rents and outré artists' colonies possible. Raffish bohemian neighborhoods flourished in the days of racial segregation; under integration the artistic poor have no safe places in which to create.... If America lacks a vigorous culture it is partly because studios and ateliers have become crack houses.”
“One of life's joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it.”
Source: Earth
“One of life's minor satisfactions is forgetting.”
“One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.”