Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer
"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul."
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Sri Aurobindo
Philosopher, Poet, Politician
"Man is a transitional being, he is not final; for in him and high beyond him ascend the radiant degrees which climb to a divine supermanhood. The step from man towards superman is the next approaching achievement in the earth's evolution. There lies our destiny and the liberating key to our aspiring, but troubled and limited human existence — inevitable because it is at once the intention of the inner Spirit and the logic of Nature's process."
Edward Said
Literary Theorist, Critic, and Author
"Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history."
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Statesman, Founder of Republic
"A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten."
Bertrand Russell
Philosopher, Mathematician
"Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved."
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"Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come."
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"I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results. The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit."
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"Winning Forever is not about the final score; it's about competing and striving to be the best. If you are in this pursuit, then you're already winning."
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"Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way."
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"The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built."
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"The Last Argument of Kings."
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"When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals."
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"And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain."
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"The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment."
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"I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut."
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"The movement is everything, the final goal is nothing."
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"Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals"
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"Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings."
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"Success in never final; failure is never fatal"
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"The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it."
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"Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life."
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"You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone."
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"The final reward of the dead - to die no more"
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"The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed."
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"Consider a movie: it consists of thousands upon thousands of individual pictures, and each of them makes sense and carries a meaning, yet the meaning of the whole film cannot be seen before its last sequence is shown. However, we cannot understand the whole film without having first understood each of its components, each of the individual pictures. Isn't it the same with life? Doesn't the final meaning of life, too, reveal itself, it at all, only at its end, on the verge of death?"
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