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  • Bob Filner Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Barack Obama Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it.
    9 May 2008. youtu.be/EpGH02DtIws
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Samuel Butler Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Anthony Trollope Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Johnson Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bertolt Brecht People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bob Saget People ask me what my favorite episode of Full House is; it was the last one!
    Bob Saget: That Aint Right (2007)
    Bob Saget
    American stand-up comedian, actor, television host and director (1956 - 2022)
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  • Zig Ziglar People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Carl Hiaasen People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?' What do they mean 'brave?' It's right! How could you not write it?
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India.
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    Indian statesman (1924 - 2018)
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  • Brendan Myers Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • J. G. Ballard Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Lorrie Moore Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.
    Lorrie Moore
    American writer (1957 - )
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • George Steiner Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.
    George Steiner
    French-born American Critic, Novelist (1929 - 2020)
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  • John Ruskin Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Fran Lebowitz Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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