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One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community. – Albert Einstein
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide. – Charles Horton Cooley
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to. – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
One should never know too precisely whom one has married. – Friedrich Nietzsche
One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth. – Henrik Ibsen
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. – William Butler Yeats
One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is reserved for the guardian angel. – Jewish Folk Saying
One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom. – Muriel Spark
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. – Bertrand Russell
One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer. – G. E. Lessing
One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household. – George Frost Kennan
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... – Robert Whitney Boynton
One swallow does not make a summer. – Aristotle
One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all. – Alcaeus
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree. – Thomas Fuller
One thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
One thing about my Aunt Nadie She was gruff on the outside, but if you ever needed something, like a spanking or a scolding, she'd give it to you. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time. – Author Unknown
One thing I can say about George...he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring. – Barbara Bush
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that. – Norman Mailer
One thing is clear to me. You cant know everything youd like to know. You cant do everything youd like to do. You cant read everything youd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life. – Real Live Preacher
One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no,' I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
One thing life has taught me if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else. – Roosevelt, Eleanor
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else. – Eleanor Roosevelt
One thing vampire children have to be taught early on is, don't run with a wooden stake. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

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