Quotes with back-end

Quotes 1101 till 1120 of 1547.

  • John Maynard Keynes The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Leon Trotsky The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Ajay Devgan The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.
    Ajay Devgan
    Indian film actor and director (1969 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • C. S. Lewis The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.
    Source: The Worlds Last Night (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • M. Beerbohm The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
    M. Beerbohm
     
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  • Bruce Springsteen The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Eric Hoffer The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Leon Trotsky The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Bhagavad Gita The end of birth is death; the end of death Is birth: this is ordained! and mournest thou, Chief of the stalwart arm! for what befalls Which could not otherwise befall?
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • John Locke The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.
    Source: Second Treatise of Government VI, sec. 57
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • John Milton The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Socrates The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Billy Burke The end of times has always been a fascination. But post 9/11, pretty much everybody will admit to having it on their minds more frequently than when they were a kid.
    Billy Burke
    American actor
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