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• 'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation.

  Charles Lyell

  Real, Science, Animal

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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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• I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.

  Lefty Gomez

  Leadership, Baseball, Years

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• The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

  Tacitus

  Wise, Weakness, Fame

  "Annales" (AD 117), IV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 256-259), 1922.

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• If a solution fails to appear ... and yet we feel success is just around the corner, try resting for a while. ... Like the early morning frost, this intellectual refreshment withers the parasitic and nasty vegetation that smothers the good seed. Bursting forth at last is the flower of truth.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Morning, Flower, Intellectual

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.35, MIT Press

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• Here at work, obviously, I make the most money of anyone on the show, so I try to be the first one here and the last one to leave. I have the crummiest office. I try to balance things out, spread it around.

  Jay Leno

  Money, Hard Work, Office

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• When I was first going through my separation, someone said to me, 'It will take you half as long as you were in the relationship before you'll feel better.' And I wanted to knock them out cold across the table. Because, of course, I was in agony. And the last thing I wanted to think was that I was going to stay that way for a long time.

  Uma Thurman

  Breakup, Feel Better, Thinking

  "9 Things Celebs Can Teach Us About Heartbreak", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 1, 2014.

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• This hill crossed with broken pines and maples lumpy with the burial mounds of uprooted hemlocks (hurricane of '38) out of their rotting hearts generations rise trying once more to become the forest just beyond them tall enough to be called trees in their youth like aspen a bouquet of young beech is gathered they still wear last summer's leaves the lightest brown almost translucent how their stubbornness has decorated the winter woods.

  Grace Paley

  Summer, Spring, Heart

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• A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Humility, Long, Simplicity

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• When humility enters our souls, we are at last able to perceive that we do not live alone in the world but with millions of brothers and sisters, and that hidden in the heart of each is the same animating spirit.

  Uell Stanley Andersen

  Brother, Heart, Humility

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• The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy; it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Swings, Ideas

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• For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dull, Politician, Newspapers

  "All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

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• Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody for any reason to allege any evidence of any evil in any human practice, for people instantly to suggest that the practice should be suppressed by the police.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Practice, Ideas, People

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• Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, True Love, First Love

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• The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not a cause for complacency or a time to celebrate the end of the struggle. The threat is not going away. The enemy has not lost interest. ...Fundamentally, we're in a struggle about ideology. Terrorists want to remake the world in their own image and it is the image that is intolerant of the kinds of institutions that we cherish.

  Michael Chertoff

  Country, Struggle, Years

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• Peace and rest at length have come,
  All the day's long toil is past;
  And each heart is whispering, "Home,
  Home at last!"

  Thomas Hood

  Peace, Home, Heart

  Thomas Hood (1861). “The daughters of king Daher; and other poems”, p.62

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• Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through.

  Horatio Nelson

  War, Believe, Done

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• Humanity is at the very beginning of its existence-a new-born babe, with all the unexplored potentialities of babyhood; and until the last few moments its interest has been centred, absolutely and exclusively, on its cradle and feeding bottle.

  James Jeans

  Science, Humanity, Bottles

  Sir James Hopwood Jeans (1928). “Nature”

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• The thing I realized this last few days is that the earth is a big place.

  Paul Cayard

  Sea, Sailing, Earth

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• We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable.

  Derek Jacobi

  Fall, Years, Differences

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• (On the 1,500 meters) We went pretty slowly. It was a nice final lap for everyone. I didn't really have that last gear, but I felt really good. It is the beginning of the season and it felt good to get back into it. It is a nice night out. It was really hot earlier, but now it is a beautiful time to run.

  Blake Williams

  Beautiful, Running, Nice

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• Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.

  Damon Hill

  Athlete, Years, Careers

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• When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as we went along there were more and yet more and at last under the boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a county turnpike toad. I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew about the mossy stones about and about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness and the rest tossed and reeled and danced and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake.

  Dorothy Wordsworth

  Beautiful, Spring, Journey

  'The Grasmere Journals' 15 April 1802.

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• You're like this little blip of light that lasts for a very brief time and you can shine as brightly as you choose.

  Sean Faircloth

  Atheist, Light, Shining

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• Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles of all things. That of which all things that are consist, the first from which they come to be, the last into which they are resolved....this they say is the element and this is the principle of things.... yet they do not all agree as to the number and the nature of these principle is water.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Rain, Rivers, Numbers

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