"To do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom."
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"I feel that I've had enough theoretical speculation to last me a lifetime."
"The last sentence of a book is, of course, where you have to stop."
"When the last moment arrives, praise and blame will be the same to you, to me, and to others. We are here to work, and will have to leave all when the call comes."
"I'm doped and thick from my last sleeping pill."
"Cheap is the last refuge of a product developer or marketer who is out of great ideas."
"A leader puts himself last then he sticks out."
"If I were to look at foreign policy, I would say John McCain has been wrong on just about everything over the last four decades."
"I lost an arm on my last trip home."
"The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?' Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him."
"Voldemort’s fury at the fall of his last, best lieutenant exploded with the force of a bomb."
"In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity."
"Go away. I'm all right. [last words]"
"The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants ."
"The last thing I thought that was utterly brilliant was the season finale of the last season of 'Homeland'. I was just completely and utterly speechless and I think my friend was poking me going: "What did you think?""
"What I wanted was just to make music, and so, originally I just wanted to hide behind the album cover of the last record, and I wanted it to be almost anonymous."
"He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away."
"There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping."
"Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained."
"Pounding an edge to sharpness will not make it last."