"When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other."
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"We are free to choose our response in any situation, but in doing so we chose the attendant consequence. If we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other."
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"In the end we are all caught in devices of our own making. I believe that. In the end we are all caught."
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"You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end and ka is always served."
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"In the end we always wear out our worries. That’s what Wireman says."
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"The business (and person) who tries to be everything to everyone ends up being nothing to anyone."
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"I like the whole package to be good, It's a rarity that that happens, so I end up not working a lot."
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"As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end."
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"I was not self-destructive, though I almost destroyed myself. In the end, I turned away from stand-up with a tired swivel of my head..."
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"The end is here, and you don't want be here. You are the best in the world at something, and you know you are not going to be that great at anything else."
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"I'm not someone who gives prescriptives at the end of my films."
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"I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing films. That's still what I am doing. The end."
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"Tool - something with a use on one end and a grasp on the other end."
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"We are going to put an end to the notion that the American taxpayer exists to fund the Federal Government."
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"I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this."
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"Man will have to go beyond intellect in the end."
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"We have none of us seen a form which had not a beginning and will not have an end."
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"Love for yourselves means [in the end] love for everything."
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"Let the end and the means be joined into one."
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"Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end."
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