- Conquer
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- Nov 07, 2020
End Quotes
How things end - in war, in careers, in conscience.
This collection leans heavily historical, comparing a lost war to a chess endgame and recalling a family home destroyed during World War II. For quotes specifically about final outcomes and results, see End Result quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
David Cameron set impossible targets and relentlessly portrayed immigration as a social burden while pursuing an economic strategy that suppressed wages. It did not end well for him, nor, more importantly, for the country.
- Depress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, there is some evidence that migration can slightly depress wages at the bottom end of the labour market, but that's an argument for a genuine living wage, for ensuring all workers are employed on the same terms and conditions, and for extending unionisation.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.
- Dart
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- Nov 07, 2020
A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.
- Hard Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.
- In The End
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- Nov 07, 2020
First, I would find an object which I would think is suitable for my characters and stories, then write about it, and in the end, I ended up with a house full of thousands of objects.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
- Globalization
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- Nov 07, 2020
Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.
- Devastation
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- Nov 07, 2020