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  • Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Value your words. Each one may be the last.
    Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
    Polish writer (1909 - 1966)
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  • Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
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  • Isaac Asimov Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • James Thurber We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Albert Camus We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Adrian Smith We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique.
    Adrian Smith
    English guitarist and pianist (1957 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bil Keane We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
    Bil Keane
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2011)
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  • Bill McKibben We build schools and give government loans and grants to college kids; for those of us who are parents, tuition will often be the last big subsidy we give the children we've raised.
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • James Boswell We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.
    James Boswell
    Scottish biographer and diarist (1740 - 1795)
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  • Barry McCaffrey We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.
    Barry McCaffrey
    American Army officer, professor and business consultant (1942 - )
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  • Bill Walsh We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.
    Bill Walsh
    American football coach (1931 - 2007)
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  • John F. Kennedy We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Carl Sagan We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 57 min 0 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • George Bernard Shaw We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.
    Back to Methuselah (1978) 443
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bob Graham We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Bobby Rahal We ran three cars last year. Unfortunately, as time went on, we did have to let a few people go, which we regretted, but just because of the situation.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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  • Neville Chamberlain We regard the agreements signed last night as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again.
    Speech 30-09-1938
    Neville Chamberlain
    British politician and Prime Minister (1869 - 1940)
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  • Olive Schreiner We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Arthur Blank We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot.
    Arthur Blank
    American businessman (1942 - )
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