"One must look for one thing only, to find many."
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"Love is more than one thing."
"One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again."
"Freedom is one thing. You have it all or you are not free."
"One thing that I ask of you: Never be afraid of giving. There is a deep joy in giving, since what we receive is much more than what we give."
"There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity."
"I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing"
"Every day there is only one thing to learn: how to be honestly happy."
"One thing about trust is that everyone's for it."
"If there's one thing the American people aren't lacking, it is courage."
"The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure."
"It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future."
"Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better; but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former."
"Culture is one thing and varnish is another."
"Learn all from one thing. -Ab uno disce omnes"
"It's one thing to say don't commit atrocities on the battlefield. It's another thing to say don't get caught doing atrocities."
"We must beat the Gospel into peoples' heads incessantly because it's the one thing we're prone to forget."
"It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it"
"The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected."
"I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am."