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• But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to somebody for eight hours a day for their particular use on the presumption that, at the end of the day, they will give it back in an unmutilated condition? Fat chance!

  Utah Phillips

  Eight, Hands, Giving

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• The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Men, Devil, Kingdoms

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• People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material subsistence and to make accessible to him the blessings of a higher intellectual culture. Where industry is everything and man is nothing begins the realm of a ruthless economic despotism whose workings are no less disastrous than those of any political despotism.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Mean, Blessing, Men

  Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.2, AK Press

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• I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to

  Anish Kapoor

  Years, Two, Lines

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• Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.

  Bruce Campbell

  Thinking, Answers, Killers

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. February 11, 2009.

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• I'm sorry I didn't feel any better or play any better, but that's what happens at the end of careers.

  Mario Lemieux

  Sorry, Play, Careers

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• The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, snivelling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the Middle Ages.

  H. L. Mencken

  People, Age, Flags

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.

  Jack Dempsey

  Three, Fighter, Minutes

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• It is not always people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

  Carol S. Dweck

  People

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.5, Random House

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• In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real.

  Paul Greengrass

  Real, Drama, Acting

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• I'll take account of things at the end of the season. Now I'm expecting a good finish to the league season.

  Carlo Ancelotti

  League, Expecting, Accounts

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• Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Wealth, Justified, Accumulation

  "The Resonant Words, and Wisdom, of 'Silent Cal'" by Carl M. Cannon, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 07, 2015.

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• The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.

  Major Owens

  Home, Long, Incentives

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• The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Littles, Territory, Boundaries

  Siri Hustvedt (2011). “The Summer Without Men: A Novel”, p.87, Macmillan

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• I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.

  Saint Patrick

  Perseverance, Giving, Faithful

  Saint Patrick, Saint Secundinus (Bp. in Ireland) (1953). “The works of St. Patrick. Hymn on St. Patrick”

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• I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about.

  Tracy Chapman

  Writing, Littles, Topics

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• The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem."

  Robert Penn Warren

  Poetry, Want, Messages

  "The Themes of Robert Frost". Lecture, 1947.

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• Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.

  Frederick Buechner

  Inspiring, Laughing, Weeping

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• We start off confused and end up confused on a higher level.

  Alan Chalmers

  Confused, Levels, Higher

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• I believe fuel cells will finally end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine. . . Fuel cells could be the predominant automotive power source in 25 years.

  Bill Ford

  Believe, Cells, Years

  "The Energy Web" by Steve Silberman, www.wired.com. July 1, 2001.

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• Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control

  Robert Smithson

  Artist, Facts, Holding On

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.154, Univ of California Press

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• Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head

  Robert Smithson

  Artist, Ideas, End Of The World

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• When you come up in the art world, whatevers in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of the working method or modus operandi of how you think about doing a painting. And I came up at a time when-actually painting was dead when I came up. Sculpture sort of ruled.

  Chuck Close

  Art, Thinking, Air

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• God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

  William S. Paley

  God, Work Out, Limits

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• It was a death struggle every day being a Yankee you either won or you lost. There was no second place. Half of us were nuts by the end of a season.

  Jerry Coleman

  Struggle, Yankees, Nuts

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