Quotes with back-end

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  • Bob Kerrey The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let's get out of here.
    Bob Kerrey
    American politician (1943 - )
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  • Anthony Storr The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.
    Anthony Storr
    English psychiatrist and author
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  • David Gemmell The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Dan Qualye The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... and fight for what you believe in.
    Dan Qualye
     
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  • George Orwell The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Robert Alan The rain may be falling hard outside, But your smile makes it all alright. I'm so gland that you're my friend. I know our friendship will never end.
    Robert Alan
    American singer/songwriter and comic book creator (1971 - )
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  • Candace Bushnell The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Ben Folds The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Barbara Demick The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Adam Clarke The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Bruce Springsteen The street's on fire in a real death waltz
    Between what's flesh and what's fantasy
    Man, the poets down here don't write nothin' at all,
    They just stand back and let it all be
    Source: Born To Run (1975) Jungleland
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke The stress on the financial system in the fall of 2007 was significant, but not so significant as to threaten the overall stability of the U.S. economy, although it did lead to the beginning of a recession at the end of 2007.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • C. Everett Koop The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Adolf Galland The throttles could only move very, very slowly, always watching the temperature, always watching. And even in throttling back, you could bust it, even being very careful.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Stokely Carmichael The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Bao Dai The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.
    Bao Dai
    Vietnamese emperor
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
    Source: Speech San Francisco (9 september 1952)
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Dhammapada The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Adam C. Engst The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?
    Adam C. Engst
     
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