"Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner."
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"In my career? Me. I'm the boss. I'm the end all and be all. I'm the alpha and omega in that."
"Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering."
"For avarice begins where poverty ends."
"At the end of reasons comes persuasion."
"Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific."
"Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge."
"True freedom is living as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience in this moment. This inner alignment with the Now is the end of suffering."
"There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end."
"In the end we must, I think, somehow conclude that they have as much right to this planet as we have."
"All things must end, and they do! You're only stuck in a place if you choose to stay stuck there."
"Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one."
"Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends."
"Don't shy away from producing your own film and being in charge of its business end as well."
"There comes a point where it doesn't matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account."
"That's the way it ends. The thin edge of the wedge."
"There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it."
"When you are active, and you must know this so well, that the more you are active, the more you see, the more you go to see. You know, you are curious. One thing leads to another thing, and it gets deeper and deeper, too. And there's no end to it."
"To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end."
"And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end."