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• What I cannot create, I do not understand.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspiring, Education, Learning

  Quoted in James Gleick, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992)

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• Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.

  John Green

  Real, Alaska, Waiting

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• When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'-ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Love You, Looks, Lasts

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1169, Delacorte Press

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• Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

  Henry James

  Heart, Knowing, Novelists

  Henry James, F. O. Matthiessen, Kenneth B. Murdock (1981). “The Notebooks of Henry James”, p.74, University of Chicago Press

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• From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Lasts, Firsts, Our Lives

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Sep 02, 2011

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• that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Years, Lasts, Ten

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.344, Penguin UK

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• Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Real, Believe

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.161, Penguin

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• I can well imagine an athiest's last words: "White, white! L-L-Love! My God!" - and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if he stays true to his reasonable self, if he stays beholden to dry, yeastless factuality, might try to explain the warm light bathing him by saying "Possibly a f-f-failing oxygenation of the b-b-brain," and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story.

  Yann Martel

  White, Light, Self

  Yann Martel (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough.

  Karl Marx

  Believe, Lasts, Fool

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• Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows?

  Ryan Adams

  Lasts, Famous Last Words, Nobody Knows

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• An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.

  Sarah Dessen

  Stories, Pages, Matter

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.175, Penguin

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• When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Suicide, Rights, Easy

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.333, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• I found his last words without too much searching. Captured by the Bolivian army, Guevara said, 'Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.

  John Green

  Army, Men, Coward

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.100, Penguin

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• Enclosure, upon its completion, was the record which represented the achievement of all the musical goals I had been aiming at for the previous 5 years. It was recorded simultaneously with Black Knights' Medieval Chamber, and as different as the two albums appear to be, they represent one investigative creative thought process. What I learned from one fed directly into the other. Enclosure is presently my last word on the musical statement which began with PBX.

  John Frusciante

  Years, Two, Knights

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• A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.

  Ambeth R. Ocampo

  Viewpoints, Lasts, Source

  Ambeth R. Ocampo (2001). “Meaning and History: The Rizal Lectures”

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• There is room for words on subjects other than last words.

  Robert Nozick

  Lasts, Rooms, Subjects

  Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”

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• The spiritual life is indeed a life of struggle; but it is also a life of well grounded hope. Hope is grounded in freedom, and freedom is grounded in all the high purposes and powers of spirit, human and divine. The last word of spirit is Victory.

  Edgar S. Brightman

  Life, Spiritual, Struggle

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• Love one another (His last words)

  George Harrison

  Love, Lasts, Love One Another

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• Apart from Love, which is not a human emotion, of all the rest my last words would best read: It's all for the experience.

  Vanna Bonta

  Love, Experience, Lasts

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• Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell’s wall. To write like that.

  Anna Kamienska

  Wall, Writing, Cells

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• Every last word is contagious.

  Jericho Brown

  Lasts, Contagious

  Jericho Brown (2015). “The New Testament”, p.13, Copper Canyon Press

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• Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Behaviour, Outcomes, Lasts

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• I think it is very important to know that we are going to die. Now we refuse the fact of dying. There was once serenity in dying where you had all your children around you in a ceremony and would utter your last words with something like, 'I love the sky'.

  Christian Boltanski

  Children, Thinking, Sky

  Interview with Lucy Rees, www.lucyreesart.com. May 13, 2014.

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• It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?

  Desmond Tutu

  Real, Europe, Injustice And Oppression

  University of Michigan Wallenberg Lecture, October 29, 2008.

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• Marijuana plants were found near bin Laden's compound, which explains why bin Laden's last words were, 'Dude... '

  Conan O'Brien

  Marijuana, Lasts, Plant

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