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• When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?

  Larry Wall

  Time, Tape, Used

  "Perl, the first postmodern computer language" by Larry Wall, www.perl.com. March 9, 1999.

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• Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence.

  Horace

  Anniversary, Wedding, Unbroken

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• The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.

  Cyril Connolly

  Friendship, Respect, Dignity

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was an extension of e-mail, real-time e-mail.

  Eric Schmidt

  Business, Real, Believe

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• If you have too many problems, maybe you should get out of business. There is no law that says a company must last forever.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Law, Forever

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• The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.

  John Foster Dulles

  Success, Business, Organization

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• Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas retire, choreographers die--and what remains of that glorious production which so excited us a decade ago, a year ago, or even last night?

  Jack Anderson

  Dance, Art, Night

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• As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling, and I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Death, Opportunity, Keys

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• A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur.

  Mark Twain

  Death, Smart, Writing

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3459, Delphi Classics

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• Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

  Horace

  Death, Time, Memories

  Horace, Edward Henry Blakeney (1970). “Horace on the art of poetry: Latin text, English prose translation, introduction and notes, together with Ben Jonson's English verse rendering”, Books for Libraries

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• We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

  Olive Schreiner

  Sleep, Equality, Ties

  The Story of an African Farm pt. 2, ch. 4 (1883)

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• In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

  John James Ingalls

  Death, Equality, Men

  John James Ingalls (1907). “Selections from the Writings of John J. Ingalls”

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• Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

  John Dryden

  Forgiveness, Adventure, Law

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• For there are three ways of performing an act of mercy: the merciful word, by forgiving and by comforting; secondly, if you can offer no word, then pray - that too is mercy; and thirdly, deeds of mercy. And when the Last Day comes, we shall be judged from this, and on this basis we shall receive the eternal verdict.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Forgiveness, Comforting, Forgiving

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• Here the free spirit of mankind, at length,
  Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place
  A limit to the giant's unchained strength,
  Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?

  William C. Bryant

  Strength, Freedom, Race

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Ages”

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• Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence;
  The last result of wisdom stamps it true;
  He only earns his freedom and existence
  Who daily conquers them anew.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Freedom, Persistence

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1912). “Faust”

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• Last but not least, I would say you should have big dreams, full dreams, not half dreams. You know, it's very simple. You can't put a large box in a small box. Well, you cannot put a full life in a small dream box.

  Elias Zerhouni

  Graduation, Dream, Simple

  Elias Zerhouni's Commencement Address at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.mit.edu. June 4, 2004.

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• As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking for a round century before going further.

  Henry Adams

  Play, History, Chinese

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• In the last resort, sheer insight is the greatest asset of all.

  Herbert Butterfield

  History, Assets, Resorts

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• Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.

  Joseph J. Ellis

  History, Chronology, Resorts

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• Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

  Bella Abzug

  Women, Next, Last Supper

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• The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his concise jests, on what the well knows to be his last day, in the pass of Thermopylae, is not to be contemplated without admiration.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Moving, Hair, History

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• Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Hope, Stars, Night

  "Oberon" by Friedrich Schiller, I. 27,

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• Behold, we know not anything;
  I can but trust that good shall fall
  At last-far off-at last, to all,
  And every winter change to spring.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Hope, Spring, Fall

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 54

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• During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

  Albert Einstein

  Knowledge, Intelligence, Belief

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.41, Broadway Books

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