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• By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Finals, Lasts, Becoming

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• Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

  Ford Frick

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Lasts

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• How the little piglets would grunt if they knew how the old boar suffered.

  Ragnar Lodbrok

  Piglet, Littles, Boars

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• Here's to the health of my beloved Critias !

  Theramenes

  Beloved

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• How Do I Listen to others? As if everyone were my Master Speaking to me His Cherished Last Words.

  Hafez

  Yoga, Listening, Lasts

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• It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander-in-chief.

  Nathan Hale

  Order, Execution, Given

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• Oh my poor soul, what is to become of you? - Where do you go?

  Cardinal Mazarin

  Soul, Poor

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• Well I've had a happy life.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Happy Life, Wells

  Last words, in W. C. Hazlitt 'Memoirs of William Hazlitt' (1867)

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• If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the power to keep their evil alive in the hearts of those who suffered most. We give them power to condemn their victims to live forever with the hurting memory of their painful pasts. We give the monsters the last word.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Memories

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• What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Famous Last Words, Enormous, Knows

  "Budget of Paradoxes". Book by Augustus De Morgan, 1866.

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• The king has been very good to me. He promoted me from a simple maid to be a marchioness. Then he raised me to be a queen. Now he will raise me to be a martyr.

  Anne Boleyn

  Kings, Queens, Simple

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• Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.

  Alexander Berkman

  Lying, Struggle, Men

  Alexander Berkman (1912). “Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist”

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• Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god. An emperor ought at least to die on his feet.

  Vespasian

  Believe, Feet, Becoming

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• We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Spiritual, Sleep, Should Have

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Clyde E. Fant (1975). “Bonhoeffer: worldly preaching”

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• Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.

  Thomas Nagel

  Common Sense, Psychology, Ordinary

  Thomas Nagel (1989). “The View From Nowhere”, p.166, Oxford University Press

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• Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Animal, Men, Excellence

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• We cannot point to a single definitive solution of any one of the problems that confront us — political, economic, social or moral, that is, having to do with the conduct of life. We are still beginners, and for that reason may hope to improve. To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind. There is no need to be dismayed by the fact that we cannot yet envisage a definitive solution of our problems, a resting-place beyond which we need not try to go.

  Peter Medawar

  Political, Mind, Progress

  Presidential Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Exeter, September 3, 1969.

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• The God of Israel is King of kings and Lord of lords... He know, and foreknows, all things, and his foreknowledge is foreordination; he, therefore, will have the last word, both in world history and in the destiny of every man; his kingdom and righteousness will triumph in the end, for neither men nor angels shall be able to thwart him.

  J. I. Packer

  Kings, Angel, Destiny

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• Much as I admire Tolkien, I once again always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence in Fellowship of the Ring when he faces the Balrog on the Khazad-dûm and he falls into the gulf, and his last words are, "Fly, you fools." What power that had, how that grabbed me. And then he comes back as Gandalf the White, and if anything he's sort of improved. I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I think it would have been an even stronger story if Tolkien had left him dead.

  George R. R. Martin

  Fall, Thinking, Should Have

  "George R. R. Martin, Author of 'A Song of Ice and Fire' Series". "The Sound of Young America" with John Hodgman, www.maximumfun.org. September 19, 2011.

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• Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.

  Edward Abbey

  Giving, Rainbow, Matter

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.13, RosettaBooks

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• The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.

  John Eric Erichsen

  Funny, Wise, Technology

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• Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!

  Augustus

  Play, Roles, Comedy

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• One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It's strange.

  Haruki Murakami

  People, Advice, World

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• I was driven to Whipsnade one sunny morning. When we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, and when we reached the zoo I did. Yet I had not exactly spent the journey in thought. Nor in great emotion. “Emotional” is perhaps the last word we can apply to some of the most important events. It was more like when a man, after a long sleep, still lying motionless in bed, becomes aware that he is now awake.

  C. S. Lewis

  Jesus, Morning, Zoos

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Lightwoods,” Magnus said. “They always have to have the last word.

  Cassandra Clare

  Lasts, Magnus Bane, Said

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