"For, how else to seize such an instant? How to shout out into the empty air just the right words, and on cue? Frame a moment to last a lifetime?"
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"Over the last 10 years, women have stalled out at the top."
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"They came in the thousands from the whole human race to pay their respects at his last resting place."
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"Last night I had a peace dream."
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"I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last."
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"The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and yet we were profoundly separated from her."
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"What’s goin’ on?” I ask as I take a seat. “Obviously not this.” He tosses me my shirt from last night. “I found it on the floor of the den. It’s obvious there was some hanky-panky going on.” Okay, so he knows we fooled around. But at least he didn’t find Kiara’s bra on top of my shirt. “Yeah . . . things kinda got a little heated after you and Mrs. W. left the den last night,” I tell him."
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"In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believe."
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"We find great things are made of little things, And little things go lessening till at last Comes God behind them."
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"Day! Faster and more fast. O'er night's brim, day boils at last."
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"In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble."
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"Yes, this Purusha consciousness must be maintained; otherwise the calm will not last. The knocks and blows that come from outside cannot disturb one, if this Purusha consciousness remains at the back."
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"The first thing we do when we're born is we breathe in, and we cry. And the last thing we do when we die is we breathe out, and other people cry."
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"A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right."
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"The last good time always comes, and when you see the darkness creeping toward you, you hold on to what was bright and good. You hold on for dear life."
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"If you want to put far more living in your life, start living every day as if it was your last."
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"She didn't even finish her last sentence; it just trailed off. I think the subject had changed in her head while her mouth had continued on the old topic, not realizing it was out of supplies."
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"I wish, when I was first born, the first thing I said was "Quote" so the last thing I said before I died would be "Unquote."
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"Last week I forgot how to ride a bicycle."
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"He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out."
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