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• When I died last, and, Dear, I die
  As often as from thee I go
  Though it be but an hour ago,
  And lovers' hours be full eternity.

  John Donne

  Love, Retirement, Farewell

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Legacy'

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• I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the door. Falling from airplanes the people are crying thank you, thank you, all down the air; and the cold carriages draw up for them on the rocks.

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Fall, Airplane

  ANNIE DILLARD (1974). “PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK”

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• The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Mistake, Chess, Next

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• Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration one day. That's a supreme joy. And why the characters keep showing up.

  Barry Hannah

  Character, Long, Joy

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• A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.

  Richard Hugo

  Teaching, Writing, Class

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• One of the most helpful things that anybody can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world. They have cost stock traders, in the aggregate, enough millions of dollars to build a concrete highway across the continent.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Giving Up, Two, Trying

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• Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial excesses, as certainly wrong, but so venial as scarcely to deserve censure.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Average, Abortion, Feminist

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1869). “History of European morals: from Augustus to Charlemagne. II”, p.23

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• I consider myself 100 percent a feminist, at odds with the feminist establishment in America. For me the great mission of feminism is to seek the full political and legal equality of women with men. However, I disagree with many of my fellow feminists as an equal opportunity feminist, who believes that feminism should only be interested in equal rights before the law. I utterly oppose special protection for women where I think that a lot of the feminist establishment has drifted in the last 20 years.

  Camille Paglia

  Believe, Opportunity, Men

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• Ever since I was a kid, I've been into clothes, but not really labels- that's kind of only been in the last year or so. It's something I've always cared about. I used to just constantly thrift and make stuff and cut stuff up and borrow my dad's stuff and borrow my little brother's stuff and all that jazz. ... It's just, if something is cool, then it's cool.

  Lorde

  Fashion, Brother, Dad

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• True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Success, Strings, True Success

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• I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no matter how long the war lasts and what it may mean, could see a case of musterd gas - the poor things burnt and blistered all over with great musterd coloured suppurating blisters, with blind eyes, all sticky and stuck together, and always fighting for breath, with voices a mere whisper, saying their throats are closing and they know they will choke.

  Vera Brittain

  War, Eye, Writing

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• Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  War, Iraq, Months

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• I had a stalker while filming a movie in Spain last year. She stood outside my apartment every day for weeks – all day, every day. I was so bored and lonely that I went out and had dinner with [her]. I just complained about everything in my life and she never came back.

  Robert Pattinson

  Lonely, Years, Bored

  "Robert Pattinson's just a lonely heart". www.express.co.uk. Februry 9, 2009.

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• "a fatal and perhaps fateful error of judgment" "...this was the last chance for the United Nations to get a grip on themselves and apply the principles of their Charter"

  Alec Douglas-Home

  War, Errors, Principles

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• Fight them with your faith in God, fight them in defense of every free honorable woman and every innocent child, and in defense of the values of manhood and the military honor...Fight them because with their defeat you will be at the last entrance of the conquest of all conquests. The war will end with...dignity, glory, and triumph for your people, army, and nation.

  Saddam Hussein

  Children, Military, War

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• Iraqis will never forget that on 8 August 1990 Kuwait became part of Iraq legally, constitutionally and actually. It continued to do so until last night, when withdrawal began.

  Saddam Hussein

  War, Night, August

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• Over the last several days, we have heard from members of Congress who want their voices to be heard. I absolutely agree.

  Barack Obama

  Memorable, Voice, Want

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• It is good to see two women from Britain's minority ethnic communities fighting in seats that Labour won at the last election.

  Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos

  Fighting, Two, Community

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• The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Hurt, Pain, Animal

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• Although the last, not least.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1813). “The plays of William Shakspeare: In twenty-one volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators. To which are added notes”, p.312

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• I don't really understand what a dictator is, but on the other hand I sometimes, in a nice way, envy myself," he said. "I am the last and only dictator in Europe and indeed there are none anywhere else in the world.

  Alexander Lukashenko

  Nice, Memorable, Hands

  "Belarus President Lukashenko in his own words". Interview with Richard Balmforth, www.reuters.com. November 27, 2012.

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• And we remember the end of our combat mission and the emergence of a new dawn - the precision of our efforts against al Qaeda in Iraq, the professionalism of the training of Iraqi security forces, and the steady drawdown of our forces. In handing over responsibility to the Iraqis, you preserved the gains of the last four years and made this day possible.

  Barack Obama

  War, Responsibility, Years

  Remarks by the President and First Lady on the End of the War in Iraq at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 14, 2011.

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• I am impressed by the progress the RNC has made in the last year to engage Latino communities across the country. I look forward to continue working alongside Chairman Priebus and Co-Chair Day to ensure that the party's year-round engagement effort continues to grow and reach new Latino neighborhoods.

  Luis Fortuno

  Country, Party, Opportunity

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• Over the last year, the RNC has made an unprecedented effort to engage Hispanic communities across Florida and around the country. Here in Florida the RNC has hired a diverse group of Hispanic staffers who are growing and reaching out to our community, to them I offer my most sincere gratitude.

  Anitere Flores

  Country, Gratitude, Opportunity

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• I think maybe I was numb to it last year.. but you know I feel it now more than ever

  Drake

  Success, Thinking, Years

  Song: Over My Dead Body, Album: Take Care, 2011

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