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"The press always ends up being much nicer than I expect. A lot of times they say something snarky about you, but then you meet them in person and they couldn't be nicer."
"Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it."
"When a marriage ends, who is left to understand it?"
"That's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea."
"Breaking old habits and forming new ones always takes time, but it is worth it in the end."
"Quantity of material production can only be a means to a further end, not an end in itself."
"Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life."
"The consequences of being un-cool feel so big that a lot of times you end of not finding ways to have open and honest conversations."
"In the end when you get your master back, you realize it's got absolutely nothing to do with what you thought it was going to be when you started."
"Reproach is infinite, and knows no end."
"Without TV, it's hard to know when one day ends and another begins."
"[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means."
"Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong."
"I'm a businesswoman at the end of the day."
"I'm sorry to see it end."
"There's really no way to duplicate how someone gets from the beginning to the end of an idea."
"It's not victory if it doesn't end the war."
"I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it."
"The reign of imagagology begins where history ends."
"But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them."
