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• Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.

  Laozi

  Honesty, Confusion, Taoism

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• The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

  Bruce Sterling

  Ignorance, Data, Literature

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• If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.

  William Ralph Inge

  Running, Names, World

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• And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, Years, Cities

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• Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.

  Helen Clark

  Zimbabwe, World, Crank

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• Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.

  Kim Campbell

  War, People, Population

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• Nuclear arms is pretty scary because that could end the world. I'm more interested in that stuff than I am Bill Clinton. I mean, I think Bill Clinton is a good president.

  Stephen Dorff

  Mean, Thinking, Scary

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• And I thought my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.

  Birch Bayh

  Loss, People, World

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• Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain.

  Christopher Bond

  War, Mean, Stories

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• If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

  Peter Lynch

  World, Economist, Ifs

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.

  Fredric Jameson

  War, Home, Writing

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.

  Hans Blix

  War, Decision, Nuclear

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• It's an end of the world I guess. I guess you'd currently call it disaster movie. But really they weren't disaster movies. They were more end of the world movies. This is more an end of the world movie.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  World, Disaster, End Of The World

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• I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.

  Richard Stallman

  Wall, Writing, Years

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.

  Ernst Mach

  Struggle, Men, Average

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• All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before year's end. Yet, at the same time that Big Oil's bottom line is going up, so are Americans' energy costs.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Years, Oil, Track

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• No matter how big you are in the business, at the end of the day it's still work.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  The End Of The Day, Matter, Bigs

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• Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore.

  Victoria Pratt

  Joy, Acting, Ifs

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• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  Victoria Pratt

  Real, Stupid, Thinking

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• The steep ride up the and down the energy curve is the most abnormal thing that has ever happened in human history. Most of human history is a no-growth situation. Our culture is built on growth and that phase of human history is almost over and we are not prepared for it. Our biggest problem is not the end of our resources. That will be gradual. Our biggest problem is a cultural problem. We don't know how to cope with it.

  M. King Hubbert

  Curves, Growth, Energy

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• The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.

  Omar Bongo

  Fighting, Order, African Union

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• It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

  Jock Sturges

  Artist, Government, Irony

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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• Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there is quite a racket going on. Choices have to be made with respect to every mark. Not every mistake should be erased. Nor shall the unintelligible be left out. Order is there to be wrenched from the tangles of words. Results are impossible to measure. A clearing is drawn around the perimeter as if by a stick with a nail on the end.

  C.D. Wright

  Mistake, Heart, Persistence

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• He saved us in order that He might begin to transform His world into the kind of world that He willed for it to be when He created it. … When Jesus saved us, He saved us to be agents of a great revolution, the end of which will come when the kingdoms of this world will become the Kingdom of our God

  Tony Campolo

  Jesus, Order, Agents

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• I believe I love my guitar more than the others love theirs. For John and Paul, songwriting is pretty important and guitar playing is a means to an end. While they're making up new tunes I can thoroughly enjoy myself just doodling around with a guitar for a whole evening. I'm fascinated by new sounds I can get from different instruments I try out. I'm not sure that makes me particularly musical. Just call me a guitar fanatic instead, and I'll be satisfied.

  George Harrison

  Believe, Mean, Guitar

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