"There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say."
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"Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience — any f...ing thing."
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"The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain."
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"I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations."
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"So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories."
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"The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe."
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"Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world."
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". . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . ."
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"I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement."
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"This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier. (Except that of course you can't have a final frontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier to, but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate . . .)"
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"Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation."
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"There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?"
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"Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder, if not by himself, to be complete and final, remains in high authority and esteem, it may be for one century, or it may be for twenty: but, as invariably, Time proves each reply to have been a mere approximation to the truth tolerable chiefly on account of the ignorance of those by whom it was accepted, and wholly intolerable when tested by the larger knowledge of their successors."
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"Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have."
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"I'm not saying I'm not bummed if a movie doesn't do well, but that isn't the final analysis of whether it's any good."
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"If we go to the conference finals and people say we had a bad season, I'll take that."
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"I used the principles of Kickstarter to make 'She's Gotta Have It.' We filmed that in 1985 to 1986. The final cost was $175,000. I didn't have that money. It was friends, grants, donations. We saved our bottles for the nickel deposit."
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"No mind, no form, I only exist; now ceased all will and thought; the final end of [Nature]]'s dance, I am it whom I have sought."
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"Every second a seeker can start over, For his life's mistakes Are initial drafts And not the final version."
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"When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart."
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