Ultimate Quotes - Page 19

• The hybrid I have now is one of the least expensive cars I've ever had. I had a BMW 318i convertible once, the ultimate driving machine.

  Sean Astin

  Bmw, Car, Machines

  "iPhone: 'If you'd shown it to Benjamin Franklin his head would have exploded'" by Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2008.

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• Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.

  Garth Ennis

  Writing, Men, Mind

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• With firm faith in our hearts, to sustain us along the hard road to victory, we will find our way to a secure peace, for the ultimate benefit of all humanity.

  Harry S. Truman

  Heart, Humanity, Victory

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• My ultimate goal will be my being told in a Penthouse letter that I can frame.

  Alice Cooper

  Goal, Letters, Penthouses

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• The ultimate crime is not to care.

  Todd Rundgren

  Peace, Special, Care

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• To please men and to kill parasites are the only uses tobacco-its ultimate effects are the same in both cases.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Death, Science, Men

  John Harvey Kellogg (1922). “Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills,”

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• You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.

  James M. Barrie

  Men, Race, Wind

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• The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity.

  Richard Dawkins

  Science, Law, Problem

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There can be no ultimate statements science: there can be no statements in science which can not be tested, and therefore none which cannot in principle be refuted, by falsifying some of the conclusions which can be deduced from them.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Principles, Conclusion

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.25, Routledge

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• Our ultimate analysis of space leads us not to a "here" and a "there," but to an extension such as that which relates "here" and "there." To put the conclusion rather crudely-space is not a lot of points close together; it is a lot of distances interlocked.

  Arthur Eddington

  Distance, Science, Space

  Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1930). “The mathematical theory of relativity”

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• The ultimate treasures on earth and in heaven are our children and our posterity.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Mother, Children, Heaven

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• The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.

  Joseph Campbell

  Knowing Who You Are, Dragons, Ego

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.184, Anchor

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• To acknowledge, to accept, and to forgive one's parents - both what they gave and what they did not give, both one's dependence upon them and one's independence of them - is the ultimate hallmark of maturity: a perception as valid for institutions as for individuals.

  Ernest Kurtz

  Inspirational, Maturity, Giving

  Ernest Kurtz (2010). “Not God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous”, p.131, Hazelden Publishing

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• Marvin Gaye was the ultimate ladies' man and a big part of that was the way he dressed. If you're having trouble getting ladies, step your suit game up and see the difference. Walk into a bar in a tailored suit and I guarantee every girl will check you out.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Girl, Men, Games

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• In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.

  Patricia Ireland

  Winning, Roots, Goal

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• The scientist is a practical man and his are practical (i.e., practically attainable) aims. He does not seek the ultimate but the proximate. He does not speak of the last analysis but rather of the next approximation. His are not those beautiful structures so delicately designed that a single flaw may cause the collapse of the whole. The scientist builds slowly and with a gross but solid kind of masonry. If dissatisfied with any of his work, even if it be near the very foundations, he can replace that part without damage to the remainder.

  Gilbert N. Lewis

  Beautiful, Science, Men

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• The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand, what you have to say and how you say it is the ultimate determination.

  Walter Murch

  Determination, Hands, Tools

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• With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

  Dan Lipinski

  Character, Sacrifice, Soldier

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• This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.

  Adam Osborne

  Fun, Games, People

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• Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Children, Independent, Government

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• The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Vision, Islam, Heritage

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• It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.

  Tara Reid

  Dream, Kids, Winning

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God.

  Charles Simeon

  Sweet, Acceptance, Men

  Charles Simeon, William Carus, Charles Pettit McIivaine (Bp.), Daniel Wilson (1847). “Memoirs of the life of the Rev. Charles Simeon ...: with a selection from his writings and correspondence”, p.518

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• He glosses over and doesn't even tell the truth....Here is a guy who is the ultimate flip-flopper running for president, and he's attacking me for not being principled? That doesn't wash.

  Rick Santorum

  Running, Guy, President

  "Santorum's decision came down to odds and his daughter". www.cnn.com. April 11, 2012.

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• Now, I have no doubt that Mitt Romney was worried about pink slips whether he was going to have enough of them to hand out because his company Bain Capital and all of the jobs that they killed I'm sure he was worried he would run out of pink slips.

  Rick Perry

  Running, Jobs, Pain

  "CNN Newsroom" with Kyra Phillips, www.cnn.com. January 10, 2012.

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