"I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball."
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"Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last?"
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"Love must be the first thought and the last thought of the day, if you wish to live in peace and happiness."
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"No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well."
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"Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainlander, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew (all Jews become mawkish when they moralize)."
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"This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness."
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"Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath."
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"There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard."
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"In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another."
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"The people will come to their own at last,-God is not mocked forever."
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"I hated my last boss. He asked, Why are you two hours late? I said, I fell downstairs. He said, That doesn't take two hours."
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"If you're not first, you're last."
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"The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires."
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"Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one."
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"It is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up 'our own' when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him."
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"I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class."
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"This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility."
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"And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us."
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"Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods."
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"This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go."
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