"Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning."
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"Means are ends in the making"
"Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible."
"Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence."
"All's well that ends better."
"Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end."
"Things are drawing towards the end now, unless I am mistaken. There is an unpleasant time just in front of you; but keep your heart up!"
"Don't the great tales never end?" "No, they never end as tales," said Frodo. "But the people in them come, and go when their part's ended. Our part will end later – or sooner."
"Farewell! wherever you fare, till your eyries receive you at the journey’s end!"
"When you choose a habit, you also choose the end of that habit."
"...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left."
"In the end, all you have is your reputation."
"Knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical plans of action, to the definite end of accumulation of money."
"Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end."
"I think that we, women, are so often defined by who our husbands are and what our husbands do. And it's time for that to end."
"The end is low, like all quantitative ends, personal or not, and it can be attained and verified."
"Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance."
"Where does contagion end and art begin?"
"Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story."
"The same thing that makes you live can kill you in the end."