"I'm glad that I get to take my final walk as the princess of 2012. ...there's nothing wrong with winning an Oscar!"
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"This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't."
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"Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one."
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"Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation."
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"Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain."
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"A high truth, indeed, fairly, finely, and skilfully wrought out, brightening at every step, and crowning the final development of a work of fiction, may add an artistic glory, but is never any truer, and seldom any more evident, at the last page than at the first."
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"We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world."
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"Any way, death is so final, isn't it? "Is it?" asked Richard. "Sometimes," said the marquis de Carabas. And they went down."
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"It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final."
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"The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We have not taken the final step of our journey, but the first step on a longer and even more difficult road. For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. The true test of our devotion to freedom is just beginning."
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"You lose in the Finals, they're all disappointing. Doesn't matter if I'm playing in Miami, Cleveland or on Mars. You lose the Finals, it's disappointing."
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"The best thing that ever happened to me was losing last year in the Finals. I had to change."
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"Well, of course you question it, especially when you get to this point. I always look at it would I rather not make the playoffs or lose in The Finals? I don't know. I don't know. I've missed the playoffs twice. I lost in The Finals four times. I'm almost starting to be like I'd rather not even make the playoffs than to lose in The Finals. It would hurt a lot easier if I just didn't make the playoffs and I didn't have a shot at it."
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"Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment."
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"He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe."
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"Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word."
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"The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment."
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"Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it."
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"He gave the body a final kick and then turned to face me. “You and I need to talk, Kitten.” “Now?” I asked in disbelief, gesturing to the dead vampire near his feet. “It’s not like he’s going anywhere, so yeah. Now."
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"It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation."
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