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Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems. (Rudolf Carnap)
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs. View quote
Jean Cocteau
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. View quote
Max Planck
I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz. View quote
C. S. Lewis
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. View quote
Quentin Crisp
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die. View quote
Martin Luther
Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world. View quote
Richard Eberhart
To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will. View quote
Ronald Reagan
As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace. (Rene Cassin)
I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory. View quote
Sam Savage
Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory. View quote
Betty Smith
Last year, I made a refrigerator in my basement. And I needed to because I needed to figure how - you know there is no such thing as "cold." There is only less heat. View quote
Alton Brown
The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right. View quote
Billy Graham
The stock market has forecast nine of the last five recessions. View quote
Paul Samuelson
Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember? View quote
Gregory Peck
But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever... View quote
David Zindell
We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves. (James Thurber)
Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician. View quote
Matthew Prior
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. View quote
Thomas Paine
However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance -- so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature. View quote
Graham Greene
It's but little good you'll do awatering the last year's crop. View quote
George Eliot