"It's a lot easier to complete a maze if you start at the end."
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"Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence."
"Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts."
"I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining."
"It's difficult to end with bangs if the judge takes away our ammunition."
"But fight we must; and conquer we shall; in the end."
"Your rights end where my nose begins."
"If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?"
"You see, unlike in the movies, there is no THE END sign flashing at the end of books. When I've read a book, I don't feel like I've finished anything. So I start a new one."
"Of writing many books there is no end."
"At the end of the day I am a writer, and if I don't take care of this, no one else will."
"You never know how a good quest is going to end."
"The end crowneth the work."
"All the things I've thought about love are true. It's beautiful and terrible and it doesn't make things perfect. It ends things, and it brings beginnings. This is mine."
"I didn’t want to see it. I didn’t think he’d ever really notice me, and in the end, he didn’t."
"In our enthusiasm to dominate nature and to produce more material good - goods - we have transformed means into ends."
"For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself."
"Though I've lived in the rural West most of my life, I never once fell in love with a horse. Not once. Neither end."
"If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it."
"What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends."