"To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good."
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"To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed."
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"Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that's the end of you."
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"When you have absolutely no idea what's going to happen to you or what your career's going to end up like and you're just really open to anything, then you don't really have anything to loose."
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"Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument."
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"Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life."
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"Things always seem to end before they start"
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"You can end love more easily than you can moderate it."
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"To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have."
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"Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one."
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"I eat like a vulture. Unfortunately the resemblance doesn't end there."
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"When you get to the end zone, act like you've been there before."
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"I'm prepared. I have a gun and I know how to shoot, and whoever comes calling without an invitation will get it in the rear end."
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"Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end."
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"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end."
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"If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve."
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"All I'm saying is that there is a price to be paid at the sharp end.. environmentally and everywhere else.. for the food that is produced in a particular way."
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"Freedom begins where it ends ignorance."
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"The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle."
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"Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky."
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