O Quotes
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“One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.”
Source: Half the Sky
“One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true”
Source: The Magus
“One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true - they were successful because they imposed chaos on order. They tore up the commandments, they denied the super-ego, what you will. They said, "You may persecute the minority, you may kill, you may torture, you may couple and breed without love." They offered humanity all its great temptations. Nothing is true, everything is permitted.”
Source: The Magus
“One of the great famines in human history took place during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. [At the same time] Western journalists were reporting how marvelously Chinese society was working. We know so little [about what happens in China].”
“One of the great flaws that we all share is that we think everyone else is cooler, everyone else is sexier; everyone else has all the answers. That was me too.”
“One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.”
“One of the great gifts of being a human being is that you can get rid of yourself and enter into the oneness of music.”
“One of the great gifts of the arcade was the way it put us all on the same level.”
Source: Arcade
“One of the great gifts that you can give people is to cook for them.”
“One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past.”
Source: Anointing Fall on Me: Accessing the Power of the Holy Spirit
“One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.”
“One of the great images to come down to us through Zen Buddhism is the encounter between an enlightened master and an advanced apprentice during the course of a shared meal. The apprentice, becoming fed up with the stress and waiting and the master’s apparent disregard for him, demands an explanation without complication of exactly how to become enlightened. The master asks, “Have you finished your rice?” “Yes,” says the apprentice. “Then go wash your bowl.”
Source: Re:
“One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real life it's not always like that.”
“One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.”
“One of the great intellectual mistakes Einstein made is that he thought that space and time are physically or ontologically entangled. In the present non-spatial universal computational program, space and time happen to be entangled to the extent that, under certain unique circumstances, changes in spatial measurements indicate changes in temporal ones. However, a change in the program itself may cause space and time to disentangle.”
“One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.”
Source: More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism
“One of the great ironies is that the impact of the flattening world has not been to empower decentralized rural land, but to strengthen the cities in China and India and elsewhere that are gateways between those countries and the West. It's deeply wise for the Chinese to be pro-urban in terms of development. They're creating space for ideas and human capital to be developed.”
“One of the great ironies of climate change activism today is that many of the movement’s most vocal proponents are also horrified by global income inequality. They are blind, however, to the fact that the costs of the policies they demand will be borne disproportionately by the world’s poorest. This is because so much of climate change policy boils down to limiting access to cheap energy…
“Countries in the developing world need cheap and reliable energy, for now mostly from fossil fuels, to promote industry and growth. Not surprisingly, a recent study of the consequences of implementing the Paris Agreement showed that it will actually increase poverty.”
“One of the great ironies of my career is that people imagine me as some sort of hardcore metal guy because of the Metallica film.”
“One of the great ironies of the social media era is that some of the least social people in the world created it.”
“One of the great joys of falling in love is the feeling that the most extraordinary person in the entire world has chosen you.”
“One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways”
“One of the great joys of life, now that you can afford a nice suit, is getting one for free. That's why I like to do press tours - I always say making movies is just an excuse to get free clothing.”
“One of the great joys of living as a slut is the opportunity to make intimate connections with people whose background is unlike your own. When you do that, you will find yourself tripping, with some embarrassment, over a lot of differences. This process can feel awkward, but every time it happens, you've learned something new about how people go about being human—perhaps just the thing that was lacking in your own culture.”
Source: The ethical slut: a guide to infinite sexual possibilities
“One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.”
“One of the great joys of science has to be turning a thought that surfaced one night over a few beers into a full-blown project.”
“One of the great joys of traveling through Italy is discovering firsthand that it is, indeed, a dream destination.”
Source: Italy Luxury: Family Hotels & Resorts
“One of the great joys this year and the year before has been how all of the people in this body, men and women, Republicans and Democrats, have worked together so well with our chairman and the chairman of the full committee to address the issues of housing for our soldiers.”
“One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.”
Source: The Heart of a Champion: Inspiring True Stories of Challenge and Triumph
“One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.”
Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
“One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.”
“One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.”
“One of the great lies we tell ourselves is that just because we’re related to people, we have to like them.”
Source: The Road Home
“One of the great logical puzzles is how a woman is always like her mother but never like her sister.”
“One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.”
“One of the great misconceptions about spiritual growth that develops in a lot of churches is that information alone is adequate to produce transformed human beings. So if we want to have a church of spiritually mature people, let's just keep cramming more and more information into them... Information alone is not adequate for the transformation of the human personality.”
“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”
“One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children-unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek.”
“One of the great moments in Artist's life is to watch her own oeuvre through a Gallery's door, to see all the Art-works hanging out together on a publicly accessible wall, to slow down and think about the creative process that continues to mystify us all.”
“One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.”
“One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.”
“One of the great mysteries of our current state of consciousness is how we can live in a world where absolutely nothing is fixed, and yet perceive a world of 'fixedness.' But once we start to see reality more as it is, we realize that nothing is permanent, so how could the future be fixed? How could we live in anything but a world of continual possibility? The realization allows us to feel more alive.”
Source: Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership
“One of the great myths about war is that there is a ground zero, a center stage, where the terrible forces unleashed by it can be witnessed, recounted, and replayed like the launching of a rocket. War is a human activity far too large to be contained in the experience of a single reporter in a single place and time in any meaningful way. When it comes, it happens to everyone. Everything is in its path. Yet this is the allure of war reporting, the chance of acquiring some personal mother lode of truth to beam back to the living rooms of a waiting nation. The fear that comes from reporting on a war is as much a fear of missing this mother load as it is of being injured or killed in battle, and it sets reporters apart from the people who have to fight wars. Soldiers have their own agonies to think about as a battle approaches. Missing the war is not generally one of them.”
Source: Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence
“One of the great myths in America is that sports build character. They can and they should. Indeed, sports may be the perfect venue in which to build character. But sports don't build character unless a coach possesses character and intentionally teaches it. Sports can team with ethics and character and spirituality; virtuous coaching can integrate the body with the heart, the mind, and the soul.”
“One of the great natural phenomena is the way in which a tube of toothpaste suddenly empties itself when it hears that you are planning a trip, so that when you come to pack it is just a twisted shell of its former self, with not even a cubic millimeter left to be squeezed out.”
Source: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Or, David Cooperfield
“One of the great parts about my job is I travel the world. I was in India right before the [Narenda] Modi election, and I don't think he was the frontrunner until the end.”
“One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.”
Source: Sunshine and shadow
“One of the great perks of being an actor is you're only as smart as the job you're in, you know, and you're only as informed as the job you're in, and you do become an expert, and you read all the books, but then there's a part of, like, you move on.”
“One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.”
“One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven’t seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it’s a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I’m in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don’t feel like you don’t know where I’ve been.”