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• Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but pass?. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

  Phyllis McGinley

  People, Sick, Immature

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• In the life of nations, what in the last resort decides questions is a kind of Judgment Court of God... Always before god and the world the stronger has the right to carry through what he wills.

  Adolf Hitler

  Stronger, World, Kind

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes”

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• I never lost my belief, in the midst of setbacks which were not spared me during my period of struggle. Providence has had the last word and brought me success.

  Adolf Hitler

  Struggle, Belief, Midst

  "The Third Reich: A New History". Book by Michael Burleigh, p. 1884, 2000.

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• This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that for these last three centuries the country has been torn by internal dissension and religious wars and has been subjected to a variety of foreign influences, to the influence, for example, of Christianity-for Christianity is not a natural religion for the Germans, but a religion that has been imported and which strikes no responsive chord in their hearts and is foreign to the inherent genius of the race. (13th February 1945)

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, Religious, War

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• I have been Europe's last hope. She proved incapable of refashioning herself by means of voluntary reform. She showed herself impervious to charm and persuasion. To take her I had to use violence. (26th February)

  Adolf Hitler

  Mean, Europe, Reform

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• The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum. This was lost last fall when shortages caused by the limitation of port facilities made it impossible to get sufficient supplies to the armies when they approached the German border.

  George C. Marshall

  Military, Fall, Army

  Speech to the Overseas Press Club, March 1, 1945.

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• We're at a real time of transition here in terms of future aviation. What's going to be manned? What's going to be unmanned? There are those who see [the JSF] as the last manned fighter/bomber. And I'm one that's inclined to believe it-whether it's right or not.

  Michael Mullen

  Military, Real, Believe

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• Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.

  Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe

  Peace, War, Tyrants

  "A gag full of holes". www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2007.

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• The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Garden, Division Of Labor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.393, Penguin

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• I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Weed, Crazy, Writing

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• Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Nature, Heart, Night

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Claude Mitchell Simpson (1972). “The American notebooks”, Ohio State Univ Pr

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• Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

  Lance Morrow

  Inspirational, Silence, Goes On

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• Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning it was not a Word, but a chirrup.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Crush, Time, Jesus

  D. H. Lawrence, Simonetta de Filippis (2002). “Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

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• Live each day as if it be your last.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Time, Each Day, Ifs

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• Play every game as if it's your last one

  Guy Lafleur

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hockey

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• On his refusal to deal with Keith Primeau: We refuse to pay a prima donna, a petulant, pouting player who had 30 goals last year the same money as Toronto is paying Mats Sundin or Pittsburgh is paying Jaromir Jagr.

  Peter Karmanos, Jr.

  Hockey, Player, Years

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• Doing a good impression of a backup goalie the last few weeks.

  Roberto Luongo

  Hockey, Nhl, Goalies

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• When you take off that sweater, your jersey, after today's game, you will be the last player in the NHL to ever wear 99. You have always been and you will always be 'The Great One,' and there will never be another.

  Gary Bettman

  Hockey, Player, Games

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• All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.

  Sappho

  Long Distance Relationship, Believe, Night

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• She sleeps alone at last.

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, Death, Suicide

  Quoted in Edmund Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes for All Occasions (1943)

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• I'll never forget my grandmother's last words. She said 'What are you doing?'

  Zach Galifianakis

  Death, Suicide, Grandmother

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• I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

  Stephen Hawking

  Death, Suicide, Dark

  "Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'". Interview with Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2011.

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• The last thing we'll hear is some scientist saying 'It works!'

  Jon Stewart

  Death, Suicide, Scientist

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• It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe, but it is a claim from which I will not recede and which, God willing, I will make good.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Europe, World

  Speech at Berlin Sportpalast, 26 Sept. 1938, in Max Domarus (ed.) Hitler: Reden und Proklamationen 1932-1945 (1962) p. 927

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• There is nothing preventing the enemy reaching Paris. We were fighting on our last line and it has been breached. I am helpless, I cannot intervene.

  Maxime Weygand

  War, Fighting, Paris

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