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• I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was an extension of e-mail, real-time e-mail.

  Eric Schmidt

  Business, Real, Believe

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• A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur.

  Mark Twain

  Death, Smart, Writing

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3459, Delphi Classics

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• Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

  Horace

  Death, Time, Memories

  Horace, Edward Henry Blakeney (1970). “Horace on the art of poetry: Latin text, English prose translation, introduction and notes, together with Ben Jonson's English verse rendering”, Books for Libraries

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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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• Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

  John Dryden

  Forgiveness, Adventure, Law

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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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• 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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• During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

  Albert Einstein

  Knowledge, Intelligence, Belief

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.41, Broadway Books

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• Life is worth Living
  Through every grain of it,
  From the foundations
  To the last edge
  Of the cornerstone, death.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Foundation, Grain

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Poems”

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• Who but knows
  How it goes!
  Life's a last year's Nightingale,
  Love's a last year's rose.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Years, Rose

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Poems”

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• Love, from its awful throne of patient power
  In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour
  Of dread endurance, from the slippery, steep,
  And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs
  And folds over the world its healing wings.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Wise, Spring

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley (1855). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: In Three Volumes”, p.441

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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 felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Afternoon, Shrubs

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2713, Delphi Classics

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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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• What is the revolution that we need? We need to dissolve the lie that some people have a right to think of other people as their property. And we need at last to form a circle that includes us all, in which all of us are seen as equal... We do not belong to the other, but our lives are linked; we belong in a circle of others.

  Barbara Deming

  Peace, Lying, Thinking

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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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• 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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• The only way a relationship will last is if you see it as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

  Tony Robbins

  Relationship, Giving, Getting Back Together

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.527, Simon and Schuster

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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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