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• Our ultimate goal is extensible programming. By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Mean, Goal, Hierarchy

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• It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Freedom, Goal, Being Free

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.18, Macmillan

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• Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were more of a geographical expedition than a military campaign. .... a Greek army had reached what they regarded as the end of the earth. They had pitted themselves against the ultimate as bravely as the yogins had struggled to break through the limits of the human psyche. Where mystics had conquered interior space, Alexander explored the farthest reaches of the physical world. .... like many of the axial sages, he was constantly 'straining after more'.

  Karen Armstrong

  Military, Army, Years

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• The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Character, Honor, Foundation

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.42, 谷月社

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• Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.

  B. F. Skinner

  Education, Advantage, Ends

  B. F. Skinner (2016). “The Technology of Teaching”, p.144, B. F. Skinner Foundation

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• It is the ultimate honor for a coach to be his country's coach.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Country, Honor, Coaches

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• One of the ultimate things a human can learn is kindness for their fellow humans

  Evan Tanner

  Kindness, Mma, Humans

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• Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wine, Men, Brotherhood

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “The French Revolution: a History: In Three Parts: I. the Bastille; II. the Constitution; III. the Guillotine : in Two Volumes”, p.192

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• Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things

  Timothy Keller

  Good Things, Idolatry, Happens

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• The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Goal, Soul

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• The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn't based on external factors.

  Tony Hsieh

  Definitions, Definition Of Success, Okay

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• In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.

  Michael Musto

  Queens, Years, Chicago

  Broadway World Interview, www.broadwayworld.com. July 25, 2003.

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• In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being "not successful." He is or should be an irrepressible optimist because of his immovable faith in the ultimate victory of Truth, which is God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Successful, Victory

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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• I believe in an ultimate decency of things.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Believe, Decency, I Believe

  Letter to Sidney Colvin, 23 August 1893, in Sidney Colvin (ed.) 'The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson' (1911) vol. 4, p. 211

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• The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.

  Gilbert Adair

  Blessed, Feet, Giving

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• The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.

  Marya Mannes

  Judgment, Cynicism, Judged

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

  Bernard Berenson

  Art, Helping, Justification

  Bernard Berenson (1958). “Essays in Appreciation”

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• The ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness.

  Raphael

  Yoga, Essence, Unions

  Raphael (1996). “Essence and Purpose of Yoga: The Initiatory Pathways to the Transcendent”, Element Books Limited

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• Forgiving is the ultimate source of peace, healing and inner happiness.

  Nawang Khechog

  Healing, Forgiving, Source

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• Contentment, then, is the product of a heart resting in God. It is the soul’s enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding. It is the outcome of my will being brought into subjection to the Divine will. It is the blessed assurance that God does all things well, and is, even now, making all things work together for my ultimate good.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Blessed, Heart, Understanding

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• God is so committed to your ultimate joy that he was willing to plunge into the greatest depths of suffering himself for you.

  Timothy Keller

  Joy, Suffering, Depth

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• Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Light, Enemy, Dying

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Long, Way, Facts

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• The beloved is the ultimate fetish.

  Mason Cooley

  Beloved, Fetish

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• A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when books are burned the ultimate in tyranny has happened. This we cannot forgive.

  John Steinbeck

  Book, People, Forgiving

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.144, Penguin

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