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• When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Birthday, Party, Special

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I like rust on a nail, fog on a mountain. Clouds hide stars, rooms have doors, eyes close, and the same words that began love end it with changed emphasis.

  David Ignatow

  Stars, Eye, Clouds

  David Ignatow (2011). “Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934–1994”, p.57, Wesleyan University Press

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• We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.

  Pope John Paul II

  Christian, Children, Giving

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• If you take five white guys and put 'em with five black guys, and let 'em hang around together for about a month, and at the end of the month, you'll notice that the white guys are walking and talking and standing like the black guys do. You'll never see the black guys going, "Oh, golly! We won the big game today, yes sir!" But you'll see guys with red hair named Duffy going, "What's happenin'?"

  George Carlin

  Philosophy, White, Hair

  "Occupation: Foole". Comedy album by George Carlin, 1973.

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• So about 80 years after the Constitution is ratified, the slaves are freed. Not so you'd really notice it of course; just kinda on paper. And that of course was at the end of the Civil War. Now there is another phrase I dearly love. That is a true oxymoron if I've ever heard one: "Civil War." Do you think anybody in this country could ever really have a civil war? "Say, pardon me?" (shoots gun) "I'm awfully sorry. Awfully sorry."

  George Carlin

  Country, Sorry, Philosophy

  "What Am I Doing in New Jersey?". Live album by George Carlin, 1988.

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• "Our prosperity, our friends, our bondage and even our destruction are all in the end rooted in our tongue," says a famous adage.

  Krishnananda Saraswati

  Tongue, Prosperity, Awareness

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• We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.

  Christopher Bond

  Needs, Saving, Investment

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• If the world somehow actually ends tomorrow, let all forget about the Mayans and just agree it`s the NHL`s fault

  Denis Leary

  Nhl, World, Faults

  FaceBook post by Denis Leary from Dec 20, 2012

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• It is my observation that all human hearts are the same and that their ultimate desire is also the same. This soul wants happiness, perfect and pure happiness, because only then will all desires end. As long as desire exists misery exists, because with desire there can be no peace.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Heart, Long

  Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Osho, Krishna Prem (Swami.) (1984). “The Long and the Short and the All”, Osho International Foundation

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• Remember one thing: the one who brings unhappiness to others in the end becomes unhappy himself, and the one who brings happiness to others in the end reaches to the heights of happiness. That's why I am saying that someone who tries to give happiness develops the center of happiness inside himself, and someone who tries to bring unhappiness to others develops the center of unhappiness inside himself.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Giving, Unhappy

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• I do not seek redemption from the consequences of my sin. I seek to be redeemed from sin itself. Until I have attained that end, I shall be content to be restless.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Past, Redemption, Sin

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.108, Courier Corporation

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• Here we are at the edge of the world, the very edge of Western civilization, and all of us are so desperate to feel something, anything, that we keep falling into each other and f*****g our way toward the end of days.

  M.I.A.

  Fall, America, Civilization

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• If you say 'Good Morning' in America and it's five past twelve you end up with a lawsuit.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Morning, Past, America

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• Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth century thought.

  Peter Medawar

  Science, America, World

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• Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?

  Peter Brimelow

  Teacher, School, Way

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• But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish desires and schemes that plunge them into ruin and destruction. For love of money is the root of all of evil and some having pursued its power, fall from faith and end in sorrow.

  Saint Timothy

  Inspirational, Life, Fall

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• A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Friendship, Passion, Three

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• Art shows and the institutions end up being the couriers for culture for the next generation and are an important component as well. It may seem ironic from one perspective, but I think if you look at my overall strategy, it's actually not out of step.

  Shepard Fairey

  Art, Thinking, Perspective

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• I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.

  Samuel Hoffenstein

  Friendship, Burned, Foe

  Samuel Hoffenstein (1954). “Complete Poetry”

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• What a thing friendship is - World without end.

  Robert Browning

  Friendship, World

  Robert Browning (1889). “Dramatic Romances”, p.77, Library of Alexandria

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• It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Friendship, Enemy, Tests

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• Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.

  Alexander Pope

  Friendship, Faithful, Soul

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Mr. Addison' (1720) l. 67

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• Life is hard for everyone. That's why there's such a nice reward at the end of it.

  Aidan Quinn

  Nice, Life Is Hard, Hard Life

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• The farther down the road you go the tougher they get and I live at the end of the road!

  Edward L. Morse

  Strength, End Of The Road, Down The Road

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• Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end.

  Laozi

  Strength, Loss, Way

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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