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• Its best to live as if it were the first and last day of my life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Lasts, Firsts, Last Day

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• What should we call him?" Klaus asked. "You should call him Dr. Montgomery," Mr. Poe replied, "unless he tells you to call him Montgomery. Both his first and last names are Montgomery, so it doesn't make much difference." "His name is Montgomery Montgomery?" Klaus said, smiling. "Yes, and I'm sure he's very sensitive about that, so don't ridicule him," Mr. Poe said, coughing again into his handkerchief.

  Daniel Handler

  Names, Differences, Drs

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• The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best. It is wonderful to have the duty of being on the river the first and last thing every day. I have loved it even in the rain. Sometimes I have loved it most in the rain.

  Wendell Berry

  Rain, Garden, Two

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• Here's to many more firsts and many more great memories.

  Christine Feehan

  Memories, Firsts, Great Memories

  Christine Feehan (2010). “Water Bound”, p.118, Penguin

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• ‎"Magic is the first and last religion of the world. It has the power to make us whole, to open our eyes to the Dominions and return us to ourselves. Everything that isn't us is also ourselves. We're joined to everything that was, is and will be. From one end of the Imajica to another. From the tiniest mote dancing over this flame to the Godhead Itself.

  Clive Barker

  Eye, Flames, Dancing

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Dec 03, 2012

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• Before she became the Girl from Nowhere-the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years-she was just a little girl in Iowa, named Amy. Amy Harper Bellafonte.

  Justin Cronin

  Girl, Years, Iowa

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.3, Ballantine Books

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• it taught me, that when a woman lets herself love, she loses. it taught me that to survive, you rely on yourself first and last." -adrianne "It should have also taught you that sometimes love has no threshold." -philip

  Nora Roberts

  Should Have, Lasts, Firsts

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• Alexander, you broke my heart. But for carrying me on your back, for pulling my dying sled, for giving me your last bread, for the body you destroyed for me, for the son you have given me, for the twenty-nine days we lived like Red Birds of Paradise, for all our Naples sands and Napa wines, for all the days you have been my first and last breath, for Orbeli- I will forgive you.

  Paullina Simons

  Heart, Wine, Son

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• Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.

  William Wordsworth

  Heart, Men, Lasts

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.381

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• I can't believe that people actually know my first and last name. I think it's really, really, gosh-darn neat.

  Brittany Murphy

  Believe, Thinking, Names

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

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• I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted with the possible? What difference is there, then, between God and primogenial chaos? Isn't affirming God's absolute omnipotence and His absolute freedom with regard to His own choices tantamount to demonstrating that God does not exist?

  Umberto Eco

  Omnipotence, Differences, Choices

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• All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.

  Hugh Miller

  Science, History, Development

  Hugh Miller (1857). “The Testimony of the Rocks”, p.220

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• First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Truth, Genius

  "Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Maxim 382, 1833.

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• But America was built by optimists. Optimists like my friend Amanda, who recently started a small business. When she went to buy her website address-her first and last name-she found that someone already owned it, but wasn't using it. So my friend emailed the owner of the site to ask if she could buy it. The owner wrote back.

  Eva Longoria

  Badass, Names, America

  Eva Longoria's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have talked of electrical forces, the first and last appeal of ignorance.

  James Dwight Dana

  Ignorance, Science, Rocks

  James Dwight Dana (1872). “Corals and Coral Islands”, p.17

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• "Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are."

  John Ruskin

  Lasts, Taste, Firsts

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• Accept your place in the sun as it was originally before the creation of this world... The black man is the first and last, maker and owner of the universe.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Men, Black, Sun

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  The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.

  Martha Graham

  Healing, Honor, Body

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

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• Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed it was the Pendulum's business. A moment later the couple went off -- he, trained on some textbook that had blunted his capacity for wonder, she, inert and insensitive to the thrill of the infinite, both oblivious of the awesomeness of their encounter -- their first and last encounter -- with the One, the Ein-Sof, the Ineffable. How could you fail to kneel down before this altar of certitude?

  Umberto Eco

  Couple, Encounters, Damnation

  "Foucault's Pendulum". Book by Umberto Eco, 2007.

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• The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses. . . . It is the cheap cloth, the cheap cotton and rayon fabric, boots, motorcars and so on that are the typical achievements of capitalist production, and not as a rule improvements that would mean much to the rich man. Queen Elizabeth owned silk stockings. The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within reach of factory girls.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Girl, Queens, Mean

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• You cannot go outside of A and Z in the realm of literature; likewise Christ Jesus is First and Last of God's new creation, and all that is in between; you cannot get outside of that.

  Theodore Austin-Sparks

  God, Christian, Jesus

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• It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we stand just outside the gates, terrified to find what's waiting for us now that we've returned. In between, we stumble blindly from one place and life to the next. We try to do the best we can. There are moments like this, however, when we are neither coming nor going, and all we have to do is sit and look back on the life we have made.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Reflection, Waiting, Trying

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• I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night.

  Amy Sedaris

  Real, Night, Names

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.believermag.com. March 2004.

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• The first and last task of aleader is to keep hope alive.

  John W. Gardner

  Leadership, Tasks, Alive

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• Albert Einstein once reported, "Great spirits have always encountered voilent opposition from mediocre minds." If you want to achieve your own greatness, to climb your own mountains, you'll have to use yourself as your first and last consultant.

  Wayne Dyer

  Greatness, Mind, Mountain

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