Quotes with end-of-summer

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  • Abigail Van Buren People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Brad Feld Periodically, at the end of a conversation, someone will ask me, 'Is there something I can do for you?' I used to answer with 'Do something that is helpful to something or someone in my world.'
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Edward Eggleston Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Bob Geldof Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Billy Collins Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • John Quinton Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
    John Quinton
    British navigator and pilot (1921 - 1951)
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  • Arthur Koestler Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • George Orwell Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Jean Genet Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • George Santayana Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu President Abbas, you've dedicated your life to advancing the Palestinian cause. Must this conflict continue for generations, or will we enable our children and our grandchildren to speak in years ahead of how we found a way to end it? That's what we should aim for, and that's what I believe we can achieve.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Walt Whitman Press close bare-bosomed night - press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! mad naked summer night.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Henry Bolingbroke Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
    Henry Bolingbroke
    British politician (1678 - 1751)
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  • Beth Ditto Products are a must - full stop. I'm sorry to say it, but that bob won't look so sleek on its own - you need a little help. It doesn't have to be the high-end stuff that they sell in the salon. Products you find in the supermarket are just as good, and sometimes better.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Sir Thomas Malory Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.
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  • Richard Dawkins Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Henry Miller Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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