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• In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

  John James Ingalls

  Death, Equality, Men

  John James Ingalls (1907). “Selections from the Writings of John J. Ingalls”

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• Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence;
  The last result of wisdom stamps it true;
  He only earns his freedom and existence
  Who daily conquers them anew.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Freedom, Persistence

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1912). “Faust”

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• Last but not least, I would say you should have big dreams, full dreams, not half dreams. You know, it's very simple. You can't put a large box in a small box. Well, you cannot put a full life in a small dream box.

  Elias Zerhouni

  Graduation, Dream, Simple

  Elias Zerhouni's Commencement Address at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.mit.edu. June 4, 2004.

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• In the last resort, sheer insight is the greatest asset of all.

  Herbert Butterfield

  History, Assets, Resorts

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• Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.

  Joseph J. Ellis

  History, Chronology, Resorts

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• Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Hope, Stars, Night

  "Oberon" by Friedrich Schiller, I. 27,

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• Behold, we know not anything;
  I can but trust that good shall fall
  At last-far off-at last, to all,
  And every winter change to spring.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Hope, Spring, Fall

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 54

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• In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

  H. G. Wells

  Knowledge, World, Devotion

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• Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, Life, Last Words

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.433, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Love's arms were wreathed about the neck of Hope,
  And Hope kiss'd Love, and Love drew in her breath
  In that close kiss and drank her whisper'd tales.
  They said that Love would die when Hope was gone.
  And Love mourn'd long, and sorrow'd after Hope;
  At last she sought out Memory, and they trod
  The same old paths where Love had walked with Hope,
  And Memory fed the soul of Love with tears.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Memories, Kissing

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.373, Delphi Classics

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• I know not when the day shall be,
  I know not when our eyes may meet;
  What welcome you may give to me,
  Or will your words be sad or sweet,
  It may not be 'till years have passed,
  'Till eyes are dim and tresses gray;
  The world is wide, but, love, at last,
  Our hands, our hearts, must meet some day.

  Hugh Conway

  Life, Sweet, Heart

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• No matter how free divorce, how frequently marriages break up, in most societies there
  is the assumption of permanent mating, of the idea that the marriage should last as
  long as both live. . . . No known society has ever invented a form of marriage strong
  enough to stick that did not contain the 'till death us do part' assumption.

  Margaret Mead

  Marriage, Strong, Divorce

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Music, People, Tragedy

  "35 Who Made a Difference: Wynton Marsalis". www.smithsonianmag.com. November 01, 2005.

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• I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last 10 years.

  Chuck Mangione

  Music, Hands, Years

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• If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but because patriotic fervor can obliterate moral distinctions altogether.

  Ralph Barton Perry

  Patriotic, Names, Evil

  Ralph Barton Perry (1951). “The Citizen Decides: A Guide to Responsible Thinking in Time of Crisis”

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• A friend of ours said if the same laws were applied to U.S. Presidents as were applied to the Nazis after WWII, that every single one of them, every last rich white one of them, from Truman on would be hung to death and shot. And this current administration is no exception. They should be hung and tried and shot as war criminals.

  Zack de la Rocha

  War, Law, White

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• "The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization shall last."

  J. William Fulbright

  Peace, Years, Civilization

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• Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Poetry, Curiosity, Mind

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1842). “The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.142

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• As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief n 'tradition' or a common myth-kitty or casual allusions in poems to other poems or poets, which last I find unpleasantly like the talk of literary understrappers letting you see they know the right people.

  Philip Larkin

  Believe, Guiding Principles, People

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• On Bill Clinton: I have a simple question: Who's the last President to give you a balanced budget?

  William J. Clinton

  Simple, Giving, President

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• People are very hungry for something new. I think they are interested in being called to be a part of something larger than the sort of small, petty, slash-and-burn politics that we have been seeing over the last several years.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Years, People

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• Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent.
  This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.

  Ben Harper

  Relationship, Distance, Believe

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• That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

  George Eliot

  Relationship, Marriage, Distance

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3265, Delphi Classics

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• The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have contrived to make it exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Taken, Race, Opposites

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Attack Upon 'Christendom'”

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• Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last?

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beauty, Long, Principles

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