Ultimate Quotes - Page 17

• Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Pain, Work, Loneliness

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• I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.

  John Green

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.

  Tommy Smothers

  Censorship

  "Where Does Accountability End and Censorship Begin?" by David Sable, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2017.

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• Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?

  Paul Gauguin

  Photography, Knows, Do You Know

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it.

  Lewis Mumford

  Mystery, Consciousness, Life Is

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• The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. Exploiting the apocalypse, selling the holocaust, is a pornography. For the ultimate selling job on ultimate violence one must read those works of fiction issued by our government as manuals of civil defense, in which you learn that there's nothing to be afraid of if you've stockpiled lots of dried fruit.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Jobs, Business, Acceptance

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• The ultimate test of a nation's character is not how it responds to adversity in war but how it meets the challenge of peace.

  Richard M. Nixon

  War, Character, Adversity

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• Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.

  Irving Stone

  Life, Patterns, Conclusion

  Irving Stone (1984). “Lust for Life”, Plume

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• Although gravity is by far the weakest force of nature, its insidious and cumulative action serves to determine the ultimate fate not only of individual astronomical objects but of the entire cosmos. The same remorseless attraction that crushes a star operates on a much grander scale on the universe as a whole.

  Paul Davies

  Crush, Nature, Stars

  Paul Davies (2008). “The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe”, p.65, Basic Books

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• Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves must still be accepted as brute facts. So maybe the ultimate laws of nature will always be off-limits to science.

  Paul Davies

  Law, Textbooks, Fundamentals

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• The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Religion, Responsible, Changed

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• And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople get ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Business, Humor

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• Discipleship is crucial to our ultimate destiny, but its cost is total commitment.

  David Jeremiah

  Commitment, Destiny, Cost

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• Our ultimate dharma is self-realization. Thoughts and actions that support our spiritual evolution are real dharma.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Real, Self

  Twitter post from Sep 19, 2016

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• The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Fundamentals, Medical Science, Disease

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• It has become, in my view, a bit too trendy to regard the acceptance of death as something tantamount to intrinsic dignity. Of course I agree with the preacher of Ecclesiastes that there is a time to love and a time to die - and when my skein runs out I hope to face the end calmly and in my own way. For most situations, however, I prefer the more martial view that death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Running, Science, Acceptance

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, p.478, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.

  Laura Kightlinger

  Sleep, Men, Goal

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• In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.

  Breyten Breytenbach

  Reality, Spotlight, Opaque

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• The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.

  Harold Russell

  Military, Civilization, Issues

  Letter to President Harry S. Truman, www.imdb.com. April 11, 1951.

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• We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good explanation of the ultimate origin of the universe, though I see no reason to believe that we can't press much further on this question than we have managed to date.

  Daniel Dennett

  Believe, Ideas, Able

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• ...even after you've just won the Super Bowl -- especially after you've just won the Super Bowl -- there's always next year. If Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing, then the only thing is nothing -- emptiness, the nightmare of life without ultimate meaning.

  Tom Landry

  Winning, Years, Competition

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• A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

  John Grant

  Insult, Corruption, Fraud

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• The addictive experience is the totality of effect produced by an involvement; it stems from pharmacological and physiological sources, but takes its ultimate form from cultural and individual constructions of experience.

  Stanton Peele

  Construction, Individual, Source

  Stanton Peele (1985). “The Meaning of Addiction: Compulsive Experience and Its Interpretation”, Free Press

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• Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may never see any practical use for their findings but who go on seeking answers to the unknown without thought of financial or practical gain.

  Eugenie Clark

  Appreciate, Unseen, Use

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• Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice.

  Dermot Mulroney

  Growing Up, Nice, Actors

  "Dermot Mulroney Interview INHALE; Plus Updates on EVERYBODY LOVES WHALES and LOVE, WEDDING, MARRIAGE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2010.

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