Quotes with lowest-end

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  • Jean François Lyotard Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.
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  • Robert A. Heinlein Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Ben Bernanke Let me end my talk by abusing slightly my status as an official representative of the Federal Reserve System. I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression. You're right, we did it. We're very sorry. But thanks to you, we won't do it again.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Campbell Brown Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of each grade. The goal is to ensure that our students are sound in math and literacy and that our schools have some basic consistency nationwide. But the standards do not dictate a national curriculum, and teachers are not told how or what to teach.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bob Black Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.
    Bob Black
    American author and anarchist (1951 - )
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  • Lord Acton Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Marcelene Cox Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end.
    Marcelene Cox
    American author
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Life is a dead-end street.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Virginia Woolf Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Jean Paul Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • John Dryden Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it' s not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn't over the last 150 years.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Adam Smith Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Ben Horowitz Look - this is the terror of being a founder & CEO. It is all your fault. Every decision, every person you hire, every dumb thing you buy or do - ultimately, you're at the end.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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