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  • Leo Rosten In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
    Leo Rosten
    Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner In the early years of America's skyjacking epidemic, the airlines were reluctant to let the FBI attempt to end hijackings by force; they feared that innocents would get caught in the crossfire, thereby sparking a wave of negative publicity.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bryan Robson In the end, a small section of the crowd, maybe 2,000 to 3,000, turned against me. And that was it. Inside the club they know your best intentions, but the minority shout louder than the rest.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Charlie Chaplin In the end, everything is a gag.
    Charlie Chaplin
    British actor, movie maker (1889 - 1977)
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  • Les Brown In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Rohinton Mistry In the end, it’s all a question of balance.
    Source: Een wankel evenwicht (2010) 328
    Rohinton Mistry
    Indian-born Canadian writer (1952 - )
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  • Barack Obama In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
    Source: Speech DNC, 2004
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • David Viscott In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.
    David Viscott
    American writer, teacher (1938 - 1996)
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  • Brit Hume In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Edmund Burke In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Blake McIver Ewing In the male homosexual community, we love to label and categorize and organize each other as if we are in a never-ending high school biology class.
    Blake McIver Ewing
    American singer-songwriter, actor and pianist (1985 - )
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  • Brad Feld In the mid-to-late 1990s, I was an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Kauffman Foundation working with Jana Matthews on 'learning programs for high growth entrepreneurs.'
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Benjamin Watson In the same way that I cannot be perfect and need grace for my mistakes, I also need to give my kids grace. I am constantly learning to be patient with them, understanding that they won't do everything right all the time, while still holding them to a high standard, as their heavenly father does.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Bill Kreutzmann In the very beginning we were a real tight family but now it's different. You know, toward the end, we had separate limos, stuff like that. It's hard to get six giant egos in the same place.
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Francis Bacon In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Douglas Adams In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Bell Hooks Indeed much of the literature written about black folks in the post-civil rights era emphasized the need for jobs. Material advancement was deemed the pressing agenda. Mental health concerns were not a high priority. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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