"Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope."
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"Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely."
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"In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted."
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"Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy."
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"Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page."
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"Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet."
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"All partings foreshadow the great final one."
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"The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you were twelve floors up instead of four. It was very much like living on the edge of the world - a last resting place before the final big drop."
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"The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause."
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"Unlike last year, we're not just happy to be here in the Finals"
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"In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead."
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"I flew over to Birmingham and did half a dozen scenes or so as a pastor in the film. I had a great time. I look forward to seeing the final version. I also am good friends with the Erwin Brothers who are co-directing and producing the film with Kevin. They also helped with Courageous. It's kind of a small little family in this arena and we love helping each other out."
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"So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!"
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"All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels."
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"It would have been better if I had won, but reaching the final was perfect."
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"I've never had a chance to go to the Finals, and I don't have a ring - and that would be the only thing that would get me to think about it."
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"What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one another completely, and where life assumes the aspect of destiny?"
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"You will have to learn many tedious things,...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all."
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"The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose."
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"If I taught a class, on my final exam I would take an Internet company and ask, 'How much is this company worth?' Anyone who would answer, I would flunk."
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