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• Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of jungle consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, dangerous form of fanatic stupor.

  Timothy Leary

  Emotional, Years, Fiction

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• And that's Aston Villa's first league goal since their last one.

  Elton Welsby

  Soccer, League, Goal

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• However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.

  Peter Quennell

  Memories, Firsts, Action

  Peter Quennell (1971). “Singular Preference: Portraits and Essays”

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• To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover the play of anticipations or echoes, to go right back to the first seeds or to go forward to the last traces, to reveal in a work its fidelity to tradition or its irreducible uniqueness, to raise or lower its stock of originality, to say that the Port -Royal grammarians invented nothing, or to discover that Cuvier had more predecessors than one thought, these are harmless enough amusements for historians who refuse to grow up.

  Michel Foucault

  Growing Up, Knowledge, Science

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• It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the European mind." The author of the remark probably meant to assert that a man or a system may have become famous on the continent, while we are almost ignorant of the name of the man and the claims of his system. Perhaps, however, a wider range might be given to the assertion. An exploded theory or a disadvantageous practice, like a rebel or a patriot in distress, seeks refuge on our shores to spend its last days in comfort if not in splendour.

  Isaac Todhunter

  Science, Men, Practice

  Isaac Todhunter (1873). “The Conflict of Studies and Other Essays on Subjects Connected with Education”, p.136, London : Macmillan

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• Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this purpose. Much important information about the target atoms or nuclei or their assemblage has been obtained in this way. In witness of this importance one can point to the unusual concentration of scattering enthusiasts among earlier Nobel Laureate physicists. One could say that physicists just love to perform or interpret scattering experiments.

  Clifford Shull

  Science, Light, Important

  Clifford G. Shull's Speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1994.

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• The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into air, or when lightning happens to fall upon some terrestrial object, or when water is electrolysed, has been engaging my attention the last couple of years, and induced me to make many attempts at clearing up that mysterious phenomenon. Though baffled for a long time, at last, I think, I have succeeded so far as to have got the clue which will lead to the discovery of the true cause of the smell in question.

  Christian Friedrich Schonbein

  Success, Couple, Fall

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• This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of one quarter of our adult population recalls the extremism of Prohibition, the last national crusade against a supposed social evil.

  Charles Orville Whitley

  Engineering, Evil, Choices

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• The common belief that... the actual relations between religion and science over the last few centuries have been marked by deep and enduring hostility... is not only historically inaccurate, but actually a caricature so grotesque that what needs to be explained is how it could possibly have achieved any degree of respectability.

  Colin Archibald Russell

  Atheism, Degrees, Needs

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• I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today.

  Ariwara no Narihira

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Yesterday

  Ariwara no Narihira, “I Have Always Known”

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• Ever since I became NATO Secretary General, I have emphasised the need for enhanced political dialogue among the Allies. And I am glad that, over the last few years, we've had more regular, and increasingly constructive, political discussions in NATO on a wider range of issues.

  Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

  Communication, Years, Issues

  Speech at NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Madeira, www.nato.int. May 25, 2007.

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• I know he's going to be fired up. He's going to try to get some revenge for the NCAA finals. He's probably been looking forward to this match since last March.

  Joe Dubuque

  Revenge, Ncaa, Trying

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• It'll be great. Of course I was disappointed last year. But . . I'll get my revenge.

  Maria Sharapova

  Revenge, Years, Disappointed

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• It's kind of like a revenge thing. Yeah, we beat them twice in a row, but they beat us last. We want to get that back. It worked out perfectly with this being the last game of the year. I think it will be a great game.

  Lindsey Harding

  Revenge, Thinking, Years

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• It was a rivalry-revenge game for us. They beat us very badly on our field last year.

  Todd Martin

  Revenge, Years, Games

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• Only the impossible lasts forever.

  Djuna Barnes

  Philosophical, Forever, Impossible

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.102, Faber & Faber

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• As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over.... So one can be grown up at seven. Then, I believe most human beings forget what they have understood, recover another sort of childhood that can last all their lives. It is not a true childhood but a kind of forgetting. Desires and anxieties are there, preventing you from having access to the essential truth.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Philosophical, Believe, Childhood

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• The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.

  Margaret Atwood

  Philosophical, Giving, Desire

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.

  Thomas Nagel

  Common Sense, Psychology, Ordinary

  Thomas Nagel (1989). “The View From Nowhere”, p.166, Oxford University Press

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• The marathon's about being in contention over the last 10K. That's when it's about what you have in your core. You have run all the strength, all the superficial fitness out of yourself, and it really comes down to what's left inside you. To be able to draw deep and pull something out of yourself is one of the most tremendous things about the marathon.

  Robert de Castella

  Running, Able, Marathon

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• What spurs a person to get more serious is highly individual, but I have found that no matter what a person's level of ability, motivation must come from within, or it will not last.

  Grete Waitz

  Inspirational, Motivation, Matter

  Grete Waitz, Gloria Averbuch (2000). “On The Run: Exercise and Fitness for Busy People”, Rodale Books

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• No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Pain

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• When was the last fast time you thanked the Lord for a trial or tribulation? Adversity compels us to go to our knees; does gratitude for adversity do that as well?

  Bonnie D. Parkin

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Adversity

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• We think there is a knowledge or practice or surrender is needed that will close an imagined or felt gap, and allow some kind of merging with the truth. This is an idea, a thought that will keep you searching forever for some blissful experience that will last - no experience lasts. Who is watching this? Don't try to imagine it. You will only create another concept an imagined object and a lot frustration. Just be that. - and don't expect it to be wow experience...don't expect it to be anything.

  Mooji

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Frustration

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• We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Spiritual, Sleep, Should Have

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Clyde E. Fant (1975). “Bonhoeffer: worldly preaching”

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