"When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort."
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"And there’s been drift in Afghanistan over the last couple of years. That’s something that we intend to fix this."
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"The last thing that I want to do is to have the United States be a foil."
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"My particular worries on any given day - how I'm doing in the polls or what somebody is saying about me... for good or for ill - isn't particularly relevant. What is relevant is: What am I building that lasts?"
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"It's such a paradox for them to say, "Oh, my God, I've thrown away my life," and continue to do that for the last month of their life. I shake them, physically shake them, and say, "What about now? What about now?""
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"The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them."
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"Its best to live as if it were the first and last day of my life."
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"In order to live fully, it is necessary to be in constant movement, only then can each day be different from the last."
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"If you say it was the "last" time, it might well turn out to be the last. What you meant was "the most recent time I was here"."
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"O world! O life! O time! On whose last steps I climb"
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"Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may last!"
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"Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts."
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"If you're in a painful place, be there, feel it, but don't stay stuck there. Do what you've got to do to get out of there. And if you're in a really joyful place, believe that that's not going to last either."
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"I rate each album as better than the last one. That's how I see it."
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"The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment."
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"Maybe that was the secret of happiness--not expecting any one thing to last forever."
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"We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth."
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"It is a good face. I am glad this war is over at last."
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"The fever called "living" Is conquer'd at last."
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"Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends."
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