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• The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Long, Nevertheless, Effects

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• For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

  John Milton

  War, Stills, Anti War

  'On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester' (written 1648, published 1694)

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• The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.

  Qin Shi Huang

  Kings, War, Suffering

  "Records of the Grand Historian". Book by Sima Qian, 94 BC.

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• Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Quality, Literature

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• I have endless playlists on my iPod so will throw on, say, Bruce Springsteen or The Smiths, depending on what kind of day I'm going to have.

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  Ipods, Kind, Springsteen

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.

  Robert Dale Owen

  Men, Done, Might

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• I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

  Bette Davis

  Congratulations, Apples, Goal

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Sleep, Depth, Needs

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

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• But now we have time. Endless time stretches before us.

  Emily Giffin

  Endless Time

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.307, Macmillan

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• All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

  William Blake

  Future, Desperate, Rage

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.421, Pearson Education

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• Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

  William Butler Yeats

  Song, Heart, Land

  The Land of Heart's Desire (1894) p. 36

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• Behind me is infinite power, before me is endless possibility, around me is boundless opportunity.

  Mac Anderson

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Endless Opportunities

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• Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Hypocrisy, Doe

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• Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night.

  William Blake

  Baby, Sweet, Night

  The Complete Writings of William Blake Poems from the Pickering Manuscript Auguries of Innocence, l. 119-21

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• Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.

  William Blake

  Sweet, Night, Delight

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.615, Pearson Education

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• Self-creation never ends. You are continually creating yourself from the field of infinite possibilities. You are, in every moment, born again. And so is everyone else.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Self, Creating

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Nov 01, 2014

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• The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

  Muriel Spark

  Art, Novelists, Different

  FaceBook post by Muriel Spark from Oct 28, 2014

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• It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

  Henry James

  History, Tourism, Literature

  Henry James (1993). “Collected Travel Writings: Great Britain and America”, p.495, Library of America

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• The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Bible, God, Faith

  Eugene H. Peterson (2009). “Run with the Horses: The Quest for Life at Its Best”, p.16, InterVarsity Press

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• Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

  John Locke

  Endless Time, People, Trying

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• To any situation the reaction may be different. That's why it's useless - in a way - to memorize patterns, because the possibilities in life are endless, and you cannot be prepared for every single thing. Therefore it's better to be able to move in a natural way, and not even physically but intuitively.

  Vladimir Vasiliev

  Art, Moving, Different

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• I am made of endless hours. Not just split seconds.

  Christophe Lemaitre

  Splits, Hours, Made

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• For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.

  Albert Claude

  Cells, Years, Two

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• Our existence in this place, this microscopic corner of the cosmos, is fleeting. With utter disregard for our wants and needs, nature plays out its grand acts on scales of space and time that are truly hard to grasp. Perhaps all we can look to for real solace is our endless capacity to ask questions and seek answers about the place we find ourselves in.

  Caleb Scharf

  Real, Play, Space

  Caleb Scharf (2012). “Gravity's Engines: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the Cosmos”, p.187, Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.

  Barry Sheene

  Doe, Bores, Motorbike

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