Quotes with dead-end

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  • Henry Miller Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Anita Diamant Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Bobby Fischer Wanted to change the rules already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorization and prearrangement. It's a terrible game now. Very uncreative.
    Source: Radio Interview, October 16 2006 [31]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • George Orwell War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Karl Kraus War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • General Omar Bradley Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share in the guilt for the dead.
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  • Benjamin Disraeli We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Buenaventura Durruti We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government.
    Buenaventura Durruti
    Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant (1896 - 1936)
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  • Desmond Morris We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.
    Desmond Morris
    British zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter (1928 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bret Harte We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India.
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    Indian statesman (1924 - 2018)
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  • Alexander Smith We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Woodrow Wilson We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Joseph Fort Newton We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty - that is the test of living.
    Joseph Fort Newton
    American Baptist minister (1876 - 1950)
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  • Benigno Aquino III We don't get typhoons in December. They normally end by September. A typhoon happening in October is considered a late event.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • William James We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Barbara Mandrell We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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