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• I'm just trying to really take it one day at a time, because for me - and I know this sounds cliche, whatever - I achieved my ultimate goal, and nothing can really top that, you know?

  Nastia Liukin

  Goal, Trying, One Day

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• I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.

  Markus Zusak

  Brother, People, Boxing

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• Fox opposes a Syria peace plan because its modus operandi is to foment dissent in the form of a relentless and irrational contrarianism to Barack Obama and all things Democratic, to advance its ultimate objective of creating a deliberately misinformed body politic whose fear, anger, mistrust, and discontent is the manna upon which it sustains its parasitic succubus-like existence.

  Jon Stewart

  Creating, Body, Foxes

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• To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold.

  Zadie Smith

  Keys, Novelists, Fluidity

  "Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays". Book by Zadie Smith, 2009.

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• The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

  Mia Hamm

  Soccer, Teamwork, Sacrifice

  Mia Hamm, Aaron Heifetz (2013). “Go For The Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• The ultimate step in taking responsibility is making sure our actions line up with our words.

  John C. Maxwell

  Responsibility, Our Words, Lines

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• Your love is the ultimate love that empowers all your efforts, a true love for what is indestructibly and perpetually you.

  Andrew W.K.

  Love Is, Empowering, Effort

  FaceBook post by Andrew W.K. from Feb 26, 2015

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• Time, the ultimate arbiter of what is of value in life.

  Aaron David Miller

  Value Of Life, Arbiter, Values

  Aaron David Miller (2014). “The End of Greatness: Why America Can't Have (and Doesn't Want) Another Great President”, p.6, Palgrave Macmillan

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• I sometimes get caught up in the big goals...That aren't really the ultimate goal, which is to be happy for what you have.

  Urijah Faber

  Goal, Sometimes, Bigs

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• I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.

  John Green

  Book, Reading, Writing

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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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• If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.

  Chauncey Wright

  Giving, Experience, Research

  Chauncey Wright (2000). “The Evolutionary Philosophy of Chauncey Wright”, p.109, A&C Black

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• The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.

  R. Kent Hughes

  God Love, Crosses, Length

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• I want to direct films, ultimately. Hopefully I'll have a fantastic career in acting and then go on to do that. That's my dream; that's the ultimate goal.

  Charlie Rowe

  Dream, Careers, Goal

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• If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual.

  Eisaku Sato

  Objectivity, Ordinary, Daily Life

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• My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Light, Depth, Speak

  "The Portable Nietzsche".

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• Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion.

  Laozi

  Men, Intelligent, Doors

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• The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood.

  Arthur Koestler

  Truth, Falsehood, Truth Is

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• TO be racing in Formula One with Mclaren has been the ultimate goal for me. It's a dream come true.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Dream, Goal, Racing

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• Eternal life is not a peculiar feeling inside! It is not your ultimate destination, to which you will go when you are dead. If you are born again, eternal life is that quality of life that you possess right now.

  W. Ian Thomas

  Feelings, Quality, Peculiar

  W. Ian Thomas (1988). “The Saving Life of Christ and the Mystery of Godliness”, p.140, Harper Collins

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• The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

  Arthur Miller

  Expression, Finals, Abandonment

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.232, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you're on the way to an artist's ultimate goal; the achievement of mastery.

  Twyla Tharp

  Creativity, Artist, Validation

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• The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement of modern times. In its relation to the well-being of the men and women of this and ensuing generations, it exceeds in importance the proper solution of various economic problems which are constant themes of legislative discussion and enactment.

  William Howard Taft

  Men, Race, Arbitration

  "Dawn of World Peace", in U.S. Bureau of Education Bulletin, No. 8, 1912.

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• Youth is the ultimate limited resource.

  William Shatner

  Limited Resources, Youth, Resources

  William Shatner, Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens (1996). “The Ashes of Eden”, Pocket Books/Star Trek

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• I believe the ultimate goal of living and refining your values is to identify and achieve congruence with universal principles.

  Steve Pavlina

  Believe, Goal, Principles

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