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Maybe 100. As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, it's fine with me and I hope it would be fine with you if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al-Qaeda is training, recruiting, equipping and motivating people every single day. (John McCain)
Things rarely happen for a single reason. Even the cleverest and most skilled manipulators recognize that their real art lies in making use of that which they cannot predict. View quote
Tom Clancy
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
I don't recall that I have said - and I don't think that I really feel - that we need a world government. We need governments of the world that work together and collaborate. But, I can't imagine that there would be any likelihood - or even that it would be desirable - to have a single government elected by the people of the world. View quote
David Rockefeller
Life moved ever outward into infinite possibilities and yet all things were perfect and finished in every single moment, their end attained. View quote
David Zindell
I have the consolation to reflect that during the period of my administration not a drop of the blood of a single fellow citizen was shed by the sword of war or of the law. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of the same character with the first, and completed the supplanting the precious metals by a paper circulation. Between such parties the less we meddle the better. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
It is conceivable that animal life might have the attribute of using the heat of surrounding matter, at its natural temperature, as a source of energy for mechanical effect.... The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific enquiry hitherto entered on. Its power of directing the motions of moving particles, in the demonstrated daily miracle of our human free-will, and in the growth of generation after generation of plants from a single seed, are infinitely different from any possible result of the fortuitous concurrence of atoms. View quote
William Thomson
This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge. View quote
Jean Piaget
A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once. View quote
Shigeru Miyamoto
No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process. (Michael Shermer)
He who thinks he can have flesh and bones without being subject to any external influence, or any accidents of matter, unconsciously wishes to reconcile two opposites, viz., to be at the same time subject and not subject to change. If man were never subject to change there could be no generation; there would be one single being, but no individuals forming a species. View quote
Maimonides
It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death. View quote
Maimonides
There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war. It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
I remember when I moved in you And the holy dove she was moving too, And every single breath that we drew was Hallelujah. View quote
Leonard Cohen
Most people have only half developed their single personalities. That a man should split his into four and more; and should develop each separately and perfectly, was so abnormal that many normals failed to understand it. View quote
Frederick Rolfe
Whatever the lady does is wrong. I do not know of a single right decision taken by her. View quote
Edward Heath
Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react. View quote
Vivien Leigh
I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle. View quote
Ayn Rand
I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera. View quote
Modest Mussorgsky
Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for the necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries of life, than a single proprietor possessing a hundred thousand a year. (Thomas Malthus)
We must not depict socialism as if socialists will bring it to us on a plate all nicely dressed. That will never happen. Not a single problem of the class struggle has ever been solved in history except by violence. When violence is exercised by the working people, by the mass of exploited against the exploiters - then we are for it! View quote
Vladimir Lenin
He seems very mournful, but there is all the winter still to be survived. He no longer lives in years; he is down to seasons. Finally it will become single nights. View quote
James Salter
Better a loving single parent family than a 'conventional' family wherein the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue. View quote
Moby
They all attributed the peaceful dominion of religion in their country mainly to the separation of church and state. I do not hesitate to affirm that during my stay in America I did not meet a single individual, of the clergy or the laity, who was not of the same opinion on this point. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville