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• I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any reason for our existence, the least must be our ability to report history as it happens so that no one can say: 'we didn't know - no one told us.'

  Robert Fisk

  Trying, Firsts, Reason

  "The Great War for Civilization". Book by Robert Fisk, 2005.

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• And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority - especially so when governments and politicians take us to war, when they have decided that they will kill and others will die.

  Robert Fisk

  War, Thinking, Government

  "The Great War for Civilization". Book by Robert Fisk, 2005.

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• You have to decide at the end of the day if you can live with yourself.

  Anne, Princess Royal

  Inspirational, The End Of The Day, Ifs

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• Better to discuss everything out in the open while you're in love, then if or when the relationship sadly ends. It's called Full Disclosure Before The Fact.

  Gene Simmons

  Inspirational, Facts, Disclosure

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• The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast program of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

  Avery Brundage

  Sports, Mean, Games

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• Mistakes will not end your business. If you are nimble and willing to listen to constructive criticism you can excel by learning and evolving.

  Meridith Valiando Rojas

  Mistake, Criticism, Nimble

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• There was an advert I rather liked. Devastated woman: "I've just seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" Husband: "Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world."

  Simon Barnes

  Funny, Clever, Husband

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• I always thought death was cruel, a silent destroyer of breath, of hope, of life. Now I understand it is physical death, the perception of it, the fear of it, which often saves us; for death marks the end of our flesh causing us to question the future of what we are.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Perception, Deep Thought, Flesh

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• When a planner speaks of implementing goals rationally, he implies that it is possible to demonstrate logically and experimentally the relationship between the proposed means and the ends they are intended to further.

  Alan A. Altshuler

  Mean, Goal, Planning

  Alan A. Altshuler (1961). “The process of planning in two American cities”

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• Whatever happens to you, don't fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for you that no one knows. You can't see it yet but so many paradises are at the end of this path...Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want.

  Rumi

  Motivational, Success, Thankful

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• The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of the grandest tunes to walk by. Or on a night in May, one can walk through the too rare Italian forests for an hour on end and never be out of hearing of the nightingale's song.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Song, Italian, Night

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• Because if one has an image, however dim and romantic, of a journey's end, one may, in the end, surely reach it, after no matter how many detours and deceptions and abandonings of hope. And hope could never have been entirely abandoned, even in the worst days.

  Margaret Drabble

  Journey, Deception, May

  Margaret Drabble (2012). “The Needle's Eye”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn't seem to be any moral place for flesh.

  Margaret Drabble

  Nice, Guilt, Body

  Margaret Drabble (2013). “A Summer Bird-Cage”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Men, Regard, Ifs

  Ford Madox Ford (2015). “The Good Soldier”, p.99, Booklassic

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• It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

  Giambattista Vico

  Men, Mind, Doubt

  Giambattista Vico, Thomas Goddard Bergin (1948). “The new science of Giambattista Vico”

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• I was a weekend drinker...I'd start on Saturday, end on Friday...thought I was controlling it...but I don't drink any more.

  Bill Hicks

  Friday, Weekend, Drink

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• That's starting to depress me about UFOs. The fact that they cross galaxies...and always end up in places like Fyfe, Alabama.

  Bill Hicks

  Depressing, Alabama, Facts

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• Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Mean, Thinking, Wings

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• It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990, international pressures, particularly those exerted from within an alliance, can result in the failure to follow actions through and so leave future problems unresolved.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Important, Alliances

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• Nature holds the beautiful, for the artist who has the insight to extract it. Thus, beauty lies even in humble, perhaps ugly things, and the ideal, which bypasses or improves on nature, may not be truly beautiful in the end.

  Albrecht Durer

  Beautiful, Lying, Humble

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• If we try to obey without faith, we get nowhere. If we try to have faith without obedience, it ends in nothing.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Trying, Have Faith, Obedience

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• I'm not afraid to speak out, and say things that I want to do, or do the things that I want to do, so um, I think in the end, being natural, and being, being actually genuine is what wins.

  Freddie Mercury

  Thinking, Winning, Speaks Out

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• The world you see is just a movie in your mind.
  Rocks dont see it.
  Bless and sit down.
  Forgive and forget.
  Practice kindness all day to everybody
  and you will realize you’re already
  in heaven now.
  That’s the story.
  That’s the message.
  Nobody understands it,
  nobody listens, they’re
  all running around like chickens with heads cut
  off. I will try to teach it but it will
  be in vain, s’why I’ll
  end up in a shack
  praying and being
  cool and singing
  by my woodstove
  making pancakes.

  Jack Kerouac

  Running, Kindness, Cutting

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• Of mystery there is no end. Of clarity, there is precious little.

  Leonard Michaels

  Littles, Clarity, Mystery

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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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