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  • George Orwell The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Giordano Bruno The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobilizable..
    Giordano Bruno
    Italian philosopher and priest (1548 - 1600)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Brendan Gleeson The whole point of film for me is that it's such a joy. It's such a wonder. The possibilities are literally endless in terms of what you can creatively do.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Carrie Fisher There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of leggings with the elastic at the waist stretched to its limit and beyond - topped with the fashion equivalent of a tea cozy. And always black, because I was in mourning for my slimmer self.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Christopher Lasch Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
    Christopher Lasch
    American historian (1932 - 1994)
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  • Ada Louise Huxtable Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
    Ada Louise Huxtable
    American architecture critic and writer (1921 - 2013)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy What do I have
    to help me, without spell or prayer,
    endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,
    the death of love?
    Over, from Rapture (2004)
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Bernhard Schlink What I really like about law is that it's not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a point where problems have to be solved, and cases decided.
    Bernhard Schlink
    German lawyer, academic, and novelist (1944 - )
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  • A. E. Housman When I was one-and-twenty
    I heard him say again,
    The heart out of the bosom
    Was never given in vain;
    'Tis paid with sighs a plenty
    And sold for endless rue.
    And I am two-and-twenty
    And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 13, st. 2
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that you must not hesitate.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Carson Mccullers While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.
    Carson Mccullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Carl Sandburg Who put up that cage? Who hung it up with bars, doors? Why do those on the inside want to get out? Why do those outside want to get in? What is this crying inside and out all the time? What is this endless, useless beating of baffled wings at these bars, doors, this cage?
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Thomas Fuller If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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