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• War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism.

  Philip Berrigan

  War, Terrorism

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• Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.

  Billy Collins

  Mean, Night, Different

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• Look, the world is everywhere: satellites, end tables, the pink and white poinsettias outside the church; reunions and degrees. All those radiant asterisks . . . Soon it will all make sense.

  Terrance Hayes

  White, Church, Degrees

  Terrance Hayes (2006). “Wind in a Box”, p.32, Penguin

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• We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.

  Georg Buchner

  Stage, Earnest

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act II, 1835.

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• You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep. It rewards neither skill nor daring. It is not a trial of souls, not the measure of wills. Even less is it a tool, a means to some womanish end. It is merely the place where the iron bones of the earth meet the hollow bones of men and break them.

  R. Scott Bakker

  War, Mean, Dark

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.369, The Overlook Press

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• What happens often - although I'm not particularly a victim of this sort of thing - is that somebody will make a quote, or invent a remark and it gets printed, ends up on the 'net and it becomes currency. And some of them are so bizarre!

  Robert Palmer

  Victim, Currency, Bizarre

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• South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.

  Louis Leakey

  Long, Records, Lasts

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• Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.

  Richard Leakey

  Discovery, Long, Tasks

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• As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Night, The End Of The Day, Camels

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• I have no problem with two teams claiming to be national champions at the end of the year. But that's our society. We're dying to know who the champion is. Heaven forbid we have two. That would be socialist, right?

  Kirk Ferentz

  Team, Years, Two

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• A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one.

  Neil Postman

  Definitions, Argument

  "Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk : How We Defeat Ourselves by the Way We Talk and What to do About It". Book by Neil Postman, 1976.

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• Today is tomorrow, and present is past.
  Nothing exists and everything will last.
  There is no beginning, there was no end.
  No depth to fall, no height to ascend.
  There is only this moment, this flicker of light
  That illuminates nothing, but oh! So bright!
  For we are the spark that flutters in space,
  Consuming an eternity of a moment’s grace.
  For today is tomorrow and present and past.
  Nothing exists and everything will last.

  Jane Roberts

  Fall, Past, Light

  Jane Roberts (2012). “The “Unknown” Reality: Volume One: A Seth Book in Two Volumes”, p.571, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• If Michaelangelo made a marble sculpture of a defensive end it would look like Mario Williams.

  Dan Dierdorf

  Looks, Sculpture, Made

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• Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.

  Jack LaLanne

  Sports, Ice Cream, Average

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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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• One night I dreamed I was locked in my Father's watch
  With Ptolemy and twenty-one ruby stars
  Mounted on spheres and the Primum Mobile
  Coiled and gleaming to the end of space
  And the notched spheres eating each other's rinds
  To the last tooth of time, and the case closed.

  John Ciardi

  Stars, Father, Night

  John Ciardi (1969). “The Achievement of John Ciardi: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems with a Critical Introduction”

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• The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.

  William Vickrey

  Depression, Holy Grail, Insane

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• Placing "amicable" and "separation" together creates an oxymoron - we don't usually decide to end a partnership until the very sight of our soon-to-be ex fills us with disgust, misery, agony or a combination of all three.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Sight, Agony, Together

  "Should I stay friends with my ex?" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2013.

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• The Sentence has no end. Sometimes I think it had no beginning. Now I salute its authors, which means all of us. You have made a wild, precious, awful, delicious, lovable, tragic, vulgar, fearsome, divine thing.

  Douglas Davis

  Mean, Thinking, Awful

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• Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.

  Frederick Leboyer

  Fairy Tale, Hell, End Of Life

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• Like an unexpected wet mop in the face of tired complacency, The Sovereignty Solution works on the receptive mind as a pry bar works on a tightly sealed box. Written with courage and passion, this is a book whose often counterintuitive clarity shakes entombed assumptions like an earthquake. Whether you end up convinced or not, you will never think about American national security the same way ever again.

  Adam Garfinkle

  Book, Passion, Tired

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• By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?

  Chauncey Wright

  Mean, Causes, May

  Chauncey Wright (2003). “Philosphical Discussions”, p.36, A&C Black

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• You need to take risks, you never know if the end results will be beautiful or strange, you need to be instantaneous, listening to every moments, without missing a scrap of the music, even if you play a rest!

  Brian Blade

  Beautiful, Play, Missing

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• I would rather instill in my amateur students love, than knowledge, of music.  Left with only knowledge, they will at the end close their books and consign the course to forgetfulness.  But if they have learned to love but the smallest part of the art, they are likely to pursue some phase of it the rest of their lives.

  Ernst Bacon

  Art, Book, Phases

  Ernst Bacon (2013). “Notes on the Piano”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• Bicycling beyond the Divide did what all great books do: it told me about me. In its tale of a journey made by two different men-both of them Daryl Farmer-this book offers us not only moving vistas and meaningful people, but also hope, that rarest of literary commodities these days. I didn't want this to end.

  Bret Lott

  Meaningful, Moving, Book

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