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• Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

  J. L. Austin

  Ordinary, Lasts, Language

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• The best way to have the last word is to apologize.

  Joyce Meyer

  Apology, Way, Lasts

  Twitter post from Jun 8, 2013

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• Private enterprise in cricket might not be regarded as the last word, and ultimate state direction would not do it any harm.

  Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell

  Might, Lasts, Cricket

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• The Emperor died forsaken by all, on this horrible rock. (St. Helena) His death struggle was awful!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Struggle, Rocks, Awful

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• We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Risk, Causes, Mountain Climbers

  Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.422, Oxford University Press

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• Seventeen whiskeys. A record, I think.

  Dylan Thomas

  Thinking, Records, Whiskey

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• To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind.

  Peter Medawar

  Science, Mind, Progress

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.119, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I shall look forward to a pleasant time.

  John Hancock

  Looks, Famous Last Words, Pleasant

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• Be strong and of good courage; fear not or be dismayed; for the Lord, even my God, will be with thee. He will not fail thee, till thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.

  David

  Strong, House, Failing

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• To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Friendship, Dog, Men

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• Upon the shoulders of you mothers rests; in a great measure, the responsibility of correctly developing the mental and moral powers of the rising generation...I have often said it is the mother who forms the mind of the child. Take men anywhere, at sea, sinking with their ship, dying in battle, lying down in death almost under any circumstances, and the last thing they think if, the last word they say is "mother." Such is the influence of woman.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Mother, Children, Lying

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• Men pass away, but their deeds abide. [His last words.]

  Augustin-Louis Cauchy

  Men, Passing Away, Deeds

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• The last word always belongs to the audience. ... Yes, that is a most powerful feeling. One that is worth savouring on dark nights when the wind blows. On the other hand, there is no way of ever knowing, when one steps out into that circle, if the connection will be made.

  Ruth Cracknell

  Art, Powerful, Blessed

  "Ruth Cracknell: a biased memoir".

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• To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

  Cornel West

  Despair, Lasts

  Cornel West (1998). “Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America”, G K Hall & Company

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• Hope is what you get when you suddenly realize that a different worldview is possible, a worldview in which the rich, the powerful, and the unscrupulous do not after all have the last word. The same worldview shift that is demanded by the resurrection of Jesus is the shift that will enable us to transform the world.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Powerful, Different

  FaceBook post by N. T. Wright from Dec 18, 2012

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• I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Trying, Succeed, Ifs

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.461, Wildside Press LLC

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• "Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on!" Were the last words of Marmion.

  Walter Scott

  Lasts, Stanley

  Walter Scott (1874). “Marmion: With All the Copyright Introductions, Notes, and Readings”, p.245

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• His last words, according to De Morgan: Man follows only phantoms.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Men, Lasts, Phantoms

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• The law must have the last word.

  Jacques Chirac

  Law, Lasts

  "France braced for 12th night of riots" by James Sturcke, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2005.

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• One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Fighting, Slavery, Action

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• Many an ancient lord's last words have been, 'You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.'

  Terry Pratchett

  Death, Magic, Lasts

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• It became the middle finger I couldn’t raise in PR photographs. The mustache became my silent last word in the verbal battles I was losing with higher headquarters on rules, targets, and fighting the war.

  Robin Olds

  War, Fighting, Mustache

  Christina Olds, Ed Rasimus, Robin Olds (2010). “Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds”, p.284, Macmillan

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  When the country goes temporarily to the dogs, cats must learn to be circumspect, walk on fences, sleep in trees, and have faith that all this woofing is not the last word.

  Garrison Keillor

  Country, Dog, Sleep

  "We Are Still Married : Stories & Letters". Book by Garrison Keillor, "The Meaning of Life" (p. 217), 1989.

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• This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word.

  Desmond Tutu

  Lying, Mean, People

  "No Future Without Forgiveness". Book by Desmond Tutu, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1999.

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• One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

  Andre Gide

  Devil, Lasts, Conversation

  "Andre Gide Journals 1889-1949". Book by André Gide, 1917.

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