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"there can only be one"

Commonly misquoted reference to the Highlander movies and TV series. The actual line is "There can BE ONLY one."
Wrong: "There can ONLY BE one" Highlander?
Right: "There can BE ONLY one" Highlander!
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What my grandmother told me every time I complained about something that was unfair.
If life was fair there would only be one bra size.
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I heard there's gonna be a natural disaster

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"there can only be one"

Reference to the Highlander movie and telvision series, where a race of Immortals try to behead each other in single combat for a mystical "prize". Used as a battlecry.
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"there can only be one"

A commonplace quote from character Duncan McCloud in the TV series The Highlander which preceded the decapitation of his adversary by use of a sword.
McCloud: "there can only be one"
Nemesis: "No"

McCloud proceeds with a seemingly perfunctory decapitation
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