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Piety is not an end but a means to attain... the highest degree of culture. This is why... those who parade piety as a purpose and an aim mostly turn into hypocrites.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
Albert Camus
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
Thomas Jefferson
The Deftmenes are mad and the Dumii are sane, thought Snibril, and that's just the same as being mad except that it's quieter. If only you could mix them together, you'd end up with normal people.
Terry Pratchett
If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.
Mark Twain
This is why we call people exes, I guess -- because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. It's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. It's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that. The X is a diagram of two paths.
John Green
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein
It is a deplorable thing to see all men deliberating on means alone, and not on the end.
Blaise Pascal
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
Aristotle
The single harmony produced by all the heavenly bodies singing and dancing together springs from one source and ends by achieving one purpose, and has rightly bestowed the name not of disordered but of ordered universe upon the whole.
Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.
William Shakespeare
Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.
George Bernard Shaw
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning of the speech, and he leaves before the end; and there are certain things which he hears but does not understand.
Leo Tolstoy
Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God, Why go right ahead and scold Him. He'll just smile and nod.
Kurt Vonnegut
If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain perennially fresh.
Bertrand Russell
The age demanded that we dance And jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed The sort of shit that it demanded.
Ernest Hemingway
Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
Martin Luther King Jr.
As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles. p. 108.
Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
