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• Three, community built on androgynous identity will mean the end of transsexuality as we know it. Either the transsexual will be able to expand his/her sexuality into a fluid androgyny, or, as roles disappear, the phenomenon of transsexuality will disappear and that energy will be transformed into new modes of sexual identity and behavior.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Mean, Community, Identity

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• I think they find it - they find me quite confusing, because - they know the music, but they don't know anything about me because I keep a very private lifestyle so they end up making up stories as such. But I don't really concern myself too much about them.

  Enya

  Thinking, Confusing, Stories

  KSCA Interview with Merilee Kelly, January 18, 1996.

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• The fact that your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Country, Voice, Understanding

  Edward R. Murrow's RTNDA Convention Speech, www.rtdna.org. October 15, 1958.

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• Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true. . . . Myth has two main functions. The first is to answer the sort of awkward questions that children ask, such as: 'Who made the world? How will it end? Who was the first man? Where do souls go after death?'. . . . The second function of myth is to justify an existing social system and account for traditional rites and customs.

  Robert Graves

  Religious, Children, Believe

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• Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.
  What is there to be or do?
  What's become of me or you?
  Are we kind or are we true?
  Sitting two and two, boys, waiting for the end.

  William Empson

  Boys, Two, Waiting

  1940 'Just a Smack at Auden'.

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• The way I see it, when you put the uniform on, in effect you sign a contract. And you don't back out of a contract merely because you've changed your mind. You can still speak up for your principles, you can still argue against the ones you're being made to fight for, but in the end you do the job.

  Pat Barker

  Jobs, Fighting, Mind

  Pat Barker (1993). “Regeneration”, p.27, Penguin

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• A celebration of insignificance, Is that all we are in the end? And one day I’ll just be one more of those faces, frozen in death and wonder

  Steven Erikson

  One Day, Faces, Frozen

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• The most characteristic concern of rhetoric [is] the manipulation of men's beliefs for political ends....the basic function of rhetoric [is] the use of words by human agents to form attitudes or to induce actions in other human agents.

  Kenneth Burke

  Attitude, Men, Political

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• Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

  Alcee Hastings

  Commitment, Years, Punishment

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• With the collision of the Shoemaker comet into Jupiter, the era of uniformitarian orthodoxy must come to an end. Minds that have been closed for nearly half a millennium can now be opened to see what really has happened to our planet in the past -- and that past is not as distant as we might suppose.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Past, Mind, Jupiter

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• I think we can end the divisions within the United States. What I think is quite clear is that we can work together in the last analysis. And that what has been going on with the United States over the period of that last three years, the divisions, the violence, the disenchantment with our society, the divisions - whether it's between blacks and whites, between the poor and the more affluent, or between age groups, or in the war in Vietnam - that we can work together. We are a great country, an unselfish country and a compassionate country. And I intend to make that my basis for running.

  Robert Kennedy

  Running, Country, War

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• When you get to the end zone, act like you've been there before.

  Earl Campbell

  Like You, Zone

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• As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.

  Gary Bauer

  Art, President, Use

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• Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient explanations of the obvious, fleeting allusions to the unthinkable. As a preliminary, the conversationalist must gauge the mood, the intelligence and the verbal facility of the company. To this end, a few words of pedantic exposition often prove invaluable.

  Jack Vance

  Challenges, Deception, Fleeting

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• We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law, or reading or playing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings.

  Clarence Darrow

  Reading, Law, Two

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• They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another'; a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.

  James F. Cooper

  Men, Political, Feelings

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James F. Cooper, 1838.

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• It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it is not to end in self-destruction of the human race. At this supremely dangerous moment in human history , the only way of salvation is the ancient Hindu way. Here we have the attitude and spirit that can make it possible for the human race to grow together in to a single family.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Attitude, Race, Self

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• Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition...The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern ... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

  Lord Acton

  Mean, Men, Class

  "The History of Freedom in Antiquity". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1907.

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• Communist ideology in its pure form is akin to
  Christianity. Its main ideas are the brotherhood of all
  peoples irrespective of their nationality, justice and
  equality, peace, and an end to all hostility between
  peoples.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Ideas, Justice, Brotherhood

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• To have found God is not an end but in itself a beginning.

  Franz Rosenzweig

  Found

  Franz Rosenzweig, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1998). “Franz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought”, p.18, Hackett Publishing

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• Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Sound, Deeds, Speech

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• If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old age with regard to the values of youth—then we have already started the movement of devaluation which will end with the defamation of the world and all its values. Only a timely act of resignation can deliver us from this tendency toward self-delusion.

  Max Scheler

  Self, Age, Movement

  Max Scheler, Harold J. Bershady (1992). “On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings”, p.126, University of Chicago Press

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• One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.

  Trent Reznor

  Compassion, Two, Greed

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• I love kissing. If I could kiss all day, I would. I can’t stop thinking about kissing. I like kissing more than sex because there’s no end to it. You can kiss forever. You can kiss yourself into oblivion. You can kiss all over the body. You can kiss yourself to sleep. And when you wake up, you can’t stop thinking about kissing. Dammit, I can’t get anything done because I’m so busy thinking about kissing. Kissing is madness! But it’s absolute paradise, if you can find a good kisser.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Sex, Sleep, Kissing

  "Sufjan Stevens, Robyn, Hot Chip, Blood Orange, Phosphorescent on Arthur Russell Tribute" by Evan Minsker, pitchfork.com. July 15, 2014.

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• Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end.

  Robert Fripp

  Mean, Discipline, Means To An End

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