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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• By the end of the 50s, everything began to collapse and, little by little, I lost all of my work. I lost Rex, the Wonder Dog and all the westerns.

  Gil Kane

  Dog, Littles, Wonder

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• Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Levels, Power Of Now

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.108, New World Library

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• But I don't think it's as dangerous, scary, or terrifying as getting to the end of our lives and wondering, what if I would have shown up?

  Brené Brown

  Thinking, Scary, What If

  "Brené Brown On The One Thing More Terrifying Than Being Vulnerable", www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2013.

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• It was hard graft all the way and a good result in the end.

  John Tyler

  Way, Results, Hard

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• There must be something to think about at the end.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Thinking

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• Is there a chance?
  A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel?
  A reason to fight?
  Is there a chance you may change your mind?
  Or are we ashes and wine?

  A Fine Frenzy

  Wine, Fighting, Tunnels

  Song: Ashes and Wine, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007

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• The right of smokers to smoke ends where their behavior affects the health and well-being of others.

  C. Everett Koop

  Behavior, Well Being, Wells

  "Regulating Secondhand Smoke" by Len Lichtenfeld, abcnews.go.com. January 31, 2007.

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• Greatness comes by beginning something that doesn't end with you.

  Robin Sharma

  Greatness

  Robin Sharma (2006). “The Greatness Guide: One of the World's Most Successful Coaches Shares His Secrets for Personal and Business Mastery”, p.102, Jaico Publishing House

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• If you charge off with some political agenda that is not informed by clarity, you are going to end up with business as usual. The road to hell is paved with good intentions but it is not paved with clarity.

  Terence McKenna

  Political, Usual, Agendas

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• The body is not important. It is made of dust; it is made of ashes. It is food for the worms. The winds and the waters dissolve it and scatter it to the four corners of the earth. In the end, what we care most for only lasts a brief lifetime, and then there is eternity. Time forever. Millions of worlds are born, evolve, and pass away into nebulous, unmeasured skies; and there is still eternity. Time always. The body becomes dust and trees and exploding fire, it becomes gaseous and disappears, and still there is eternity. Silent, unopposed, brooding, forever.

  Rudolfo Anaya

  Fire, Dust, Wind

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• I think brown marks a reunion of peoples, an end to ancient wanderings. Rival cultures and creeds conspire with Spring to create children of a beauty, perhaps of a harmony, previously unknown. Or long forgotten.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Children, Spring, Thinking

  Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.9, Penguin

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• Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave.

  Simon Bolivar

  Wish, Unions, Lasts

  Simon Bolivar's final proclamation to the people of Colombia (December 8, 1830) as quoted in Thomas Rourke "Man of Glory: Simon Bolivar", 1939.

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• In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Block, War, Europe

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• But in 2000, the injuries really started to kick in and my elbow gave a lot of problems. At the end of the year I had to take 20 months off before I could come back into the game

  Richard Krajicek

  Years, Games, Elbows

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