Adam Smith
Philosopher, Economist
"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production."
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Sole
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Zadie Smith
Novelist, Essayist
"I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me."
Mencius
Philosopher
"The sole concern of learning is to seek one's original heart."
Emile M. Cioran
Philosopher, Essayist
"The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love."
Richard P. Feynman
Physicist
"The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth."
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"We bear the sole, relentless tenderness."
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"Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries"
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"...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his."
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"The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient."
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"Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth."
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"Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children."
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"Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl."
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"Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India."
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"Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation."
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"I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object."
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"Education can no longer be the sole property of the state."
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"Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values."
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"Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance."
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"Experiment is the sole judge of the validity of any idea."
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"A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield."
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"you would have to give up all else, I alone would expect you to be your sole and exclusive standard"
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"I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth."
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"All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity."
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"Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth."
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"But Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement. For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent."
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