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  • William Faulkner The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Aristotle First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Camille Paglia Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
    As quoted in Sexuality and Gender (2002)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Martin Luther King In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Horace Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Rabindranath Tagore When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Freeman Dyson A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.
    Freeman Dyson
    American arts, writer (1923 - 2020)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Abraham Lincoln And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Bu'' is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the ''Buts'' that could be said.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Groucho Marx Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • James Baldwin Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
    Nobody Knows My Name (1961)
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Samuel Johnson As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Stephen R. Covey Begin with the end in mind.
    The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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