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• I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school.

  Tom Clancy

  Reading, School, Sunday

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• When you've finished using a car, put the f***ing seat back, so humans can use it afterwards.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Car, Use, Offensive

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• By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.

  John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

  Giving, Principles, May

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• As soon as I finished the Russian course, I was sent to Korea with the task of trying to establish an agent network, a network in the so called maritime provinces.

  George Blake

  Korea, Kgb, Trying

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• When a war is over I think it's a cowardly thing to leave the war behind you in minefields that hit women and children and the most vulnerable. Imagine the war is finished and you go to work and there are snipers shooting at you. Imagine taking your kids to the beach and you find that the beach is blowing up beneath you. Like there's nowhere safe.

  Paul McCartney

  Beach, Children, War

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• That is the charm of a map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible. It has the magic of anticipation without the toil and sweat of realization. The greatest romance ever written pales before the possibilities of adventure that lie in the faint blue trails from sea to sea. The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore. Achievement is the price which the wanderer pays for the right to venture.

  Rosita Forbes

  Lying, Adventure, Journey

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• Sometimes you finish the poem, and that last piece clicks in place. Sometimes the poem is finished with you.

  Frederick Seidel

  Pieces, Lasts, Sometimes

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• When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  Book, Years, Obsession

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I got strep throat last week and finished my antibiotics on the Wednesday before coming here, so yesterday was my first day off antibiotics. They take a lot out of you, but it was kind of an advantage ... Instead of concentrating on everything, I was concentrating more on the breathing and relaxing. That also really helped me.

  Gabrielle Daleman

  Breathing, Yesterday, Days Off

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• But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.

  William Labov

  Country, America, Europe

  "Interview with William Labov: Sound Change". "Wordmaster" with Avi Arditti and Rosanne Skirble, learningenglish.voanews.com. January 11, 2005.

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• Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Writing, Fog, Orchestra

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• This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Glowing, Generations, Nations

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• The one thing finished in this hasty world.

  James Russell Lowell

  World, Hasty, One Thing

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.771, Delphi Classics

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• But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Wish, Vastness, Wonder

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”

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• There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Beauty, Too Much, Brilliant

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• I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

  Antonia Fraser

  Book, Reading, Squares

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• "It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Morning, Responsibility, Discipline

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• A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 PM to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Work, Humor

  Treadmill to Oblivion pt. 2 (1954)

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• The whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind so that I can survey it at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once. What delight this is I cannot tell!

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Thinking, Long, Imagination

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Hans Mersmann (1928). “Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Father, Holiday, Two Sides

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• Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.

  Bootsy Collins

  Japan, Trying, Albums

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• I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

  Manuel Puig

  Writing, Simple, Ukulele

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• Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other's work. A canvas wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was.

  Pablo Picasso

  Done, Evening, Canvas

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• She told her therapist it reminded her of coming home the summer after her freshman year at Rutgers, stepping back into the warm bath of family and friends, loving it for a week or two, and then feeling trapped, dying to return to school, missing her roommates and her cute new boyfriend, the classes and the parties and the giggly talks before bed, understanding for the first time that that was her real life now, that this, despite everything she'd ever loved about it, was finished for good.

  Tom Perrotta

  Cute, Summer, Real

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• A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put in this position by a letter from Mr. Bertrand Russell when the work was nearly through the press.

  Gottlob Frege

  Math, Giving, Foundation

  Note in the appendix of "Grundlagen der Arithmetik" (Vol. 2), after Frege had received a letter of Bertrand Russell in which Russell had explained his discovery of, what is now known as, Russell's paradox, 1903.

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