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• Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." (Harvard Business School definition of leadership)

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Success, School, Impact

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• Once upon a time, this moment - this last light of the evening the day before the race - was the best moment of the year for me. The anticipation of the game to come. But that was when all I had to lose was my life.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Light, Race, Years

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.333, Scholastic UK

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• Her blog was doing well, with thousands of unique visitors each month, and she was earning good speaking fees, and she had a fellowship at Princeton and a relationship with Blaine - "You are the absolute love of my life," he'd written in her last birthday card - and yet there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Morning, Unique, Love Of My Life

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013). “Americanah”, p.12, Anchor

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• The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman? "Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes.

  Dan Brown

  Powerful, Block, Eye

  Dan Brown (2004). “The Da Vinci Code”, Doubleday Books

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• But who can foresee such things? None of us can predict the final outcomes of our actions, and few of us even try; most of us just do what we do to prolong a moment's pleasure or to stop the pain. And even when we act for the noblest reasons, the last link of the chain all too often drips with someone's blood.

  Stephen King

  Pain, Blood, Trying

  Stephen King (2002). “Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales”, Scribner

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• Hello,Pepper. It´s been a while," I said. "The last time we met up, you tried to kidnap me, isn´t that right?" Nora (p.303)

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Peppers, Hello, Mets

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• Life changes, people come and go and seasons never last. Karen kingsbury # Leaving

  Karen Kingsbury

  Life Changing, People, Leaving

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• And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a life here, just as I had. The town was paper, but the memories were not. All the things I’d done here, all the love and pity and compassion and violence and spite, kept welling up inside me.

  John Green

  Memories, Bad Day, Compassion

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.156, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• And now, at last, gaiaphage and Nemesis stood facing each other. “Why didn’t you just . . . fade?” Gaia demanded plaintively. “You hit me,” Nemesis said. It was a little boy’s voice coming from Caine’s mouth. “And that’s not okay.

  Michael Grant

  Boys, Voice, Mouths

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• An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.

  Alberto Moravia

  Heart, Hands, Evil

  Alberto Moravia (2011). “Contempt”, p.75, New York Review of Books

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• I am a shark, Cassie," he says slowly, drawing the words out, as if he might be speaking to me for the last time. Looking into my eyes with tears in his, as if he's seeing me for the last time. "A shark who dreamed he was a man.

  Rick Yancey

  Eye, Men, Sharks

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.307, Penguin

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• When was the last time you lost an argument?" He pretended to think about it. Then, leaning down, he whispered in her ear, "A few hours ago when you refused to stop the car and crawl into the backseat with me.

  Nalini Singh

  Thinking, Car, Ears

  Nalini Singh (2010). “Play of Passion”, p.198, Penguin

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• One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream

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• You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Time, Knowing, Might

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Housekeeping: A Novel”, p.88, Macmillan

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• When was the last time you did something for the first time?

  John C. Maxwell

  Service Culture, Firsts, First Time

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”, p.87, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fashion, Powerful, Decision

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.150, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You asked me to speak. If this is a problem, the solution is not to get defensive because you don't like what you hear. The answer is to not invite me to talk." iAm ~ Lover At Last

  J.R. Ward

  Answers, Lovers, Problem

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• At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Choices, Doe, Horizon

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.71, A&C Black

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• Perhaps we can come here together someday. By the way, you're a month older than the last time I saw you. Are you still too young to marry.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Together, Saws, Way

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• There's never the right last moment. Even if you get to say good-bye, even if you get to say "I love you", even if you jump off a plane and get a tattoo and hug everyone you've ever met right before you drift off with a smile, it is never the right last moment. There is always more to say, somewhere to go, something to remember. Another discussion, another fight. There is always supposed to be another day.

  Pamela Ribon

  Tattoo, Love You, Fighting

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• She is all I could ever ask for, she is perfect, and right now, with those big, green eyes and pillowy lips and alabaster thighs, the idea of doing this for the rest of our lives doesn’t seem all that daunting. She’s the last reprieve. The stay of execution. She gives me hope. But times are tough for dreamers. And even if my dream is a simple one—all I want is for Her to be in love with me forever—I know it’s still a long shot. Life ruins everything.

  Pete Wentz

  Dream, Eye, Simple

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• You are always new. THe last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. When you pass'd my window home yesterday, I was fill'd with as much admiration as if I had then seen you for the first time...Even if you did not love me I could not help an entire devotion to you.

  John Keats

  Home, Kissing, Yesterday

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.340, Oxford University Press, USA

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• the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.

  Charles Bukowski

  World, Caught, Glances

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• Has a world composed of "us" and "not us" been invaded at last?

  Bisco Hatori

  World

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• Maybe the last human being on Earth won't die of starvation or exposure or as a meal of wild animals. Maybe the last one to die will be killed by the last one alive.

  Rick Yancey

  Animal, Meals, Alive

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.28, Penguin

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