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• It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt)

  Sylvia Plath

  Mother, Suicide, Suicidal

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• I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give Pain a body, a representation, to put it outside himself. A need to convert inner torment into some outward tangible wound that all could see. It was almost as though suicide were a last-ditch effort at exorcism, in which the person sacrificed his life in order that the devil inside might die.

  Phillip Lopate

  Suicide, Pain, Suicidal

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• Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at last in his inner ear so he could leave this world as he'd entered it through the undependable irrational influence of water. -Kevin Jeffery Clark It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get at.

  Sylvia Plath

  Suicidal, Dark, Sea

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• We know there are billions of stars and planets literally out there, and the universe is getting bigger. We know from our fancy telescopes that just in the last two years more than 20 planets have been identified outside our solar system that seem to be far enough away from their suns - - and dense enough - - that they might be able to support some form of life. So it makes it increasing less likely that we're alone. But if we were visited someday, I wouldn't be surprised.

  William J. Clinton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• I'm so fat and I'm so depressed; last night I tried to hang myself - but the rope broke.

  Joan Rivers

  Suicidal, Night, Rope

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• I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set about it is to constitute it as Sparta and Venice were constituted; to place it in a strong position, and so to fortify it that no one will dream of taking it by a sudden assault; and, on the other hand, not to make it so large as to appear formidable to its neighbors. It should in this way be able to enjoy its form of government for a long time. For war is made on a commonwealth for two reasons: to subjugate it, and for fear of being subjugated by it.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Dream, Art, Strong

  "Discourses on Livy" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 1, ch. 3, as translated by LJ Walker and B Crick, 1517.

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• He was a father. That's what a father does.Eases the burdens of those he loves. Saves the ones he loves from painful last images that might endure for a lifetime.

  George Saunders

  Fathers Day, Dad, Ease

  George Saunders (2013). “Tenth of December: Stories”, p.154, Random House

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• Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Hard Times

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time and Daily Readings from It's Your Time Boxed Set”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't confuse [Father's Day] with Valentine's Day, and here's why. Boy, will you creep him out. I can just tell you from last year, uh, even if they do like chocolate, they don't want it from their son.

  Jon Stewart

  Fathers Day, Valentine, Son

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• Everybody has two swings: the one he uses during the last three holes of a tournament and the one he uses the rest of the time.

  Toney Penna

  Golf, Swings, Two

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• Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the last person to want real change is your customer. This is why most new ideas come from small companies that have nothing to lose.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Real, Educational, Ideas

  "Online Extra: Q&A With MIT's Nicholas Negroponte". Interview with Stephen Baker, www.bloomberg.com. June 21, 2004.

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• This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we will have to be better people came to be acknowledge, if not thoroughly understood, by a significantly large minority.

  Tom Robbins

  Philosophy, Educational, People

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.23, Bantam

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• When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

  Mark Twain

  Father, Science, Years

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• The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Fall, Autumn, Light

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.251

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• In going for the last shot of the game most people wait too long to take the shot. Give yourself a chance to get the first shot and tap the ball in. Your players are normally inside the defense.

  Norm Sloan

  Basketball, Player, Games

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• Nobody's taller than the last man standing

  LaMichael James

  Sports, Men, Last Man Standing

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• These last few years we've seen an unacceptable abuse of power, having a president whose priority is expanding his own power.

  Trey Gowdy

  Bad Ass, Years, Priorities

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• I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.

  Robert Breault

  Spring, Fall, Procrastination

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• I would be the last to disparage the genius of the politicians who make our laws," Hutchison wrote around that time, "the writers who make our books, the artists who make our pictures, but in gauging the true culture of the nation and reckoning its tensile strength, let the student not neglect hockey

  Bruce Hutchison

  Book, Hockey, Artist

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• The atmosphere was even greater than in Winnipeg last year. The place was almost packed for warm-ups, which was fun for us. You look at the group and you get your salute and you get the standing ovation and that means a lot to us.

  Jennifer Botterill

  Fun, Mean, Hockey

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• I had a few fights last year, but I need to take boxing lessons. I need to, because in the NHL it's required.

  Maxim Kuznetsov

  Fighting, Hockey, Years

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• The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need the sticker on your windshield that you need to get into the public beach. All you need is the willingness to read.

  Harry Golden

  Beach, Book, Reading

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• Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time - is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.

  Cesare Pavese

  Mean, Fighting, Air

  Cesare Pavese (2017). “This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950”, p.211, Routledge

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• Meditation gives us peace of mind without a tranquilizer. And unlike a tranquilizer, the peace of mind that we get from meditation does not fade away. It lasts for good in some corner of the inmost recesses of our aspiring heart.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Meditation Practice, Giving

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• In the life of nations, what in the last resort decides questions is a kind of Judgment Court of God... Always before god and the world the stronger has the right to carry through what he wills.

  Adolf Hitler

  Stronger, World, Kind

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes”

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