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Dennis Miller Comedian
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"Everyone wants answers and wants to know what the timeline is. Unfortunately, it's a complex situation, and we don't have the final answers yet."

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Charles Darwin Naturalist, Geologist
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"Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain this similarity of pattern in members of the same class, by utility or by the doctrine of final causes."

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Andy Cohen Television Producer
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"I would like a boyfriend. I'm a very happy person and it is the final, final piece of the puzzle. I'm looking for that shout-it-out-from-the-mountaintops, fall-in-love person."

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Aristotle Philosopher
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"A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated."

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Rama Swami Spiritual Leader
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"God is One. There cannot be two or more. For if there were two God's who created them? There must have been someone who came before them. Therefore God is only One - One Final Absolute Existence. Everything else is a manifestation of Him."

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"However, you do need rules. Driving on the left (or the right or, in parts of Europe, on the left and the right as the mood takes you) is a rule which works, since following it means you're more likely to reach your intended rather than your final destination."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"The government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers."

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Richard P. Feynman Physicist
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"There’s so much distance between the fundamental rules and the final phenomenon, that it’s almost unbelievable that the final variety of phenomenon can come from such a steady operation of such simple rules."

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation."

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making."

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist
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"In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory."

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Olivia Wilde Actress, Producer, Director
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"As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older."

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