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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ...

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Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.

The economy is the start and end of everything. You can't have successful education reform or any ot...

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You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end...

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You only value something if you know it’ll end.

...because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in ...

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If patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives — and they do — then the law of harmony insists...

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No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard t...

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My dreams do not end with playing Major League Baseball.

The Iraq War marked the beginning of the end of network news coverage. Viewers saw the juxtaposition...

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We need intelligence in this country. We need a certain toughness in this country, or we're going to...

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I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's n...

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To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change ...

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I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard fo...

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Mickey Rourke's character in 'The Wrestler' - that was my dad, that was my uncles, that was so many ...

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The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own s...

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I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help t...

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You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, wh...

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An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never...

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Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crop...

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Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

Why should I fear death?If I am, then death is not.If Death is, then I am not.Why should I fear that...

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A whole Gothic world had come to grief...there was now no armour glittering through the forest glade...

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We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living pa...

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The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end o...

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People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive...

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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where...

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There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughl...

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More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, i...

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When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifyi...

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But what now if all the peace, the comfort, the contentment were to come to a horrible end?

And thus it happens that the reader, the closer he comes to the novel's end, the more he wishes he w...

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Franz KafkaThe Penal Colony and Other Stories

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end...

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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent err...

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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a re...

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When the end comes, I will meet it raging.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his ...

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Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marr...

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A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to loo...

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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

This haze of blood must subside, the palace must collapse under the weight of the riches it conceals...

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Gustave FlaubertMemoirs of a Madman

At school, there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear...

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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has ...

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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the c...

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If we don't end war, war will end us.

I always had to diet. I'm diabetic, so it's a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy and not e...

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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men d...

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We came to the street light in the corner, and I wondered how many times Dill stood there hugging th...

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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were...

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All's well that ends well.''Assuming there's an end somewhere,' Aomame said.Tamaru formed some short...

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Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom...

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Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

I thought about the screws and their happiness. Maybe they were glad to be free of the eggbeater, to...

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Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad cas...

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Democracy is not the end point of mankind. There may be developments in many different directions in...

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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the me...

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The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of ...

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Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is inca...

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If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.

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Herbert SteinWhat I Think: Essays on Economics

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of ...

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God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such s...

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I don't really know what the future of science is. Maybe we have come to the end of science; maybe s...

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In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belo...

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He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be ...

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Seek for the Sword that was brokenIn Imladris it dwells;There shall be counsels takenStronger than M...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring

End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.

writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think ...

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As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into heads...

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everyt...

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the onl...

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling. Whe...

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It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling.

I came to London. I spent nine months doing domestic work and gardening because I knew I wanted to g...

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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Lu...

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But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices ...

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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just t...

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The happiness of society is the end of government.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

The two of us in that room. No past, no future. All intense deep that-time-only. A feeling that ever...

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An answer is always a form of death.

An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is ...

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[T]here is something to recommend a story that ends.

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John Green (author)The Fault in Our Stars

There will come a time,' I said, 'when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when th...

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Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to ...

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The way you remember or dream about your loved ones - the ones who are gone - you can't stop their e...

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