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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.
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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
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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.
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Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
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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.
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Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
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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.
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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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Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
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Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
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Really take the time to focus on finding your voice and making sure that whatever you're creating is of high quality and is useful for people in their everyday lives.
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Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.
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Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.
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Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.
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Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
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Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
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