- Expired
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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
- Cold War
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the end of the Cold War two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each of them is dismantling about 2,000 nuclear warheads a year.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the end, the politics of the euro zone weren't strong enough to create a fully integrated fiscal union with a common banking system, etc.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should import everything we can use or sell, in order that we may employ our unemployed hands, in making the goods by which we pay for these imports.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
We recognize in a plant some unknown power, a single, form-giving force, which creates and conserves, which moves unwaveringly toward its end, which appropriates what is useful to it and rejects that which would harm it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Facebook's headquarters is a two-story building at the end of a quiet, tree-lined street. Zuckerberg nicknamed it the Bunker. Facebook has grown so fast that this is the company's fifth home in six years - the third in Palo Alto. There is virtually no indication outside of the Bunker's tenant.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look through my career, I put an end to a lot of guys never been knocked down, never been stopped.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As kids, there's somehow the fear that these bullies can end your life if they want to. Everything is blown up, and occasionally that kind of awful thing does happen.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn't bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless series. But in the end I became totally fed-up with all these sub-Tolkien rip-offs because they all end up doing the same old things and there's no rigour to it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020