Ultimate Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Pain, Work, Loneliness

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• Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?

  Paul Gauguin

  Photography, Knows, Do You Know

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it.

  Lewis Mumford

  Mystery, Consciousness, Life Is

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• The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. Exploiting the apocalypse, selling the holocaust, is a pornography. For the ultimate selling job on ultimate violence one must read those works of fiction issued by our government as manuals of civil defense, in which you learn that there's nothing to be afraid of if you've stockpiled lots of dried fruit.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Jobs, Business, Acceptance

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• The ultimate test of a nation's character is not how it responds to adversity in war but how it meets the challenge of peace.

  Richard M. Nixon

  War, Character, Adversity

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• The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Religion, Responsible, Changed

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• Discipleship is crucial to our ultimate destiny, but its cost is total commitment.

  David Jeremiah

  Commitment, Destiny, Cost

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• Our ultimate dharma is self-realization. Thoughts and actions that support our spiritual evolution are real dharma.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Real, Self

  Twitter post from Sep 19, 2016

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• I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.

  Laura Kightlinger

  Sleep, Men, Goal

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• In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.

  Breyten Breytenbach

  Reality, Spotlight, Opaque

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• We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good explanation of the ultimate origin of the universe, though I see no reason to believe that we can't press much further on this question than we have managed to date.

  Daniel Dennett

  Believe, Ideas, Able

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• ...even after you've just won the Super Bowl -- especially after you've just won the Super Bowl -- there's always next year. If Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing, then the only thing is nothing -- emptiness, the nightmare of life without ultimate meaning.

  Tom Landry

  Winning, Years, Competition

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• The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years.

  John Shelby Spong

  Gay, Past, Years

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• Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability.

  Mark Russell

  Tests, Ability, Olympian

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• We must send the message that if you use illegal drugs, you will pay the ultimate price by not playing an entire season. And if you get caught again, you will be banished for life.

  Jim Bunning

  Drug, Use, Pay

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• I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity.

  Liu Xiaobo

  Humanity, West, Natural

  Xiaobo Liu, E. Perry Link, Tienchi Martin-Liao (2012). “No Enemies, No Hatred”, p.121, Harvard University Press

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• Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each of us, as voters and Americans, to take a long look in the mirror, because in many ways, our representatives in Washington reflect the people who have sent them there.

  Evan Bayh

  Mirrors, Long, People

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• For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve, we honor their commitment. For those who return to civilian life, we honor their service.

  Steve Buyer

  Grateful, Commitment, Sacrifice

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• An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.

  Alejandro Amenabar

  Distance, Mean, Thinking

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• Cancer is the ultimate nemesis that hangs in the balance for one in three women and one in two men in their lifetime.

  David Agus

  Cancer, Men, Two

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• Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan.

  Lloyd Cutler

  Europe, Important, Nuclear

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• The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want.

  Roman Coppola

  People, Appreciate, Creative

  "Roman Coppola Is Young At Heart". Interview with Durga Chew-Bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2012.

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• Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying it in a moral sense. I'm just saying it in the sense of what is it that's really going to bring change.

  Jared Diamond

  Responsibility, People, Moral

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• You know, film is the ultimate goal in an actor's career. I mean, I still love TV. I have my feet firmly stamped in it. But my opportunities have been bigger and better.

  Idris Elba

  Mean, Opportunity, Careers

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