Quotes with next-to-last

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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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  • Burnie Burns We had seen the way the print industry had been disrupted; we'd seen how the audio industry got disrupted, so it just seemed like a natural progression that video was next. We thought we were late to the game in 2003.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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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.
    Source: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 57 min 0 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Chief Seattle We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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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.
    Source: Back to Methuselah (1978) 443
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Buzz Aldrin We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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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.
    Source: Speech 30-09-1938
    Neville Chamberlain
    British politician and Prime Minister (1869 - 1940)
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  • Arnold Bennett We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Phyllis Diller We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
    Phyllis Diller
    American actress and stand-up (1917 - 2012)
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  • Bobby Farrelly We wanted to do a sequel with Jim and Jeff. They said that the word was that Jim didn't want to do any sequels. We approached him and he said he would do it, but not until next year. New Line said it was too long to wait.
    Bobby Farrelly
    American film director, screenwriter and producer (1958 - )
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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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  • Bre Pettis We're on the brink of the next industrial revolution. Instead of buying things, you can make them on a printer. When you have a 3D printer, you can iterate more - what used to take months, now takes hours.
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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