"The ends justifies the means."
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"The end comes when the infinites arrive."
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"Only he without sin can tell me if my means justify my ends."
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"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."
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"Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established."
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"The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion."
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"As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end."
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"Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end."
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"In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them."
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"We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker."
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"But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end."
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"Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down."
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"It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road."
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"Every moment is nothing without end."
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"A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant."
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"Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life."
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"When reason ends, then anger begins. Therefore, anger is a sign of weakness."
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"Those who arrive at the end of the journey are not those who began."
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"Art only begins where Imitation ends."
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"The future is uncertain but the end is always near."
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