"The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature."
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"Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat."
"The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician."
"The only love that lasts is unrequited love."
"Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history."
"Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to repair some of the damage."
"Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!"
"The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms."
"That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave."
"Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program."
"I voted for you during your last election."
"Nothing lasts forever ... pain and troubles included."
"Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh."
"A leader is the one who speaks last and acts first."
"T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft."
"Success lasts only three seconds. After that you're the same as you were before you had it."
"At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions."
"You know the pain is part of the whole thing. And it isn’t that you can say afterwards the pleasure was greater than the pain and that’s why you would do it again. That has nothing to do with it. You can’t measure it, because the pain comes after and it lasts longer. So the question really is, Why doesn’t that pain make you say, I won’t do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you don’t."
"If nice guys finish last, then great guys come in right after them."
"I'm having a good time. I'm going to treat every game and every day as if they are my last because I now know that they could be."