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It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.

I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

If you want to be a star, don't bother doing it because it ends up being very empty.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.

Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

A true initiation never ends.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?

I was tired. I hadn't slept eight hours in two, three years. I lived on four, five hours of sleep. You can do it during a campaign because thousands are screaming for you. You're getting adrenaline shots each day. Then the campaign ends, and there are no more shots.

Murder begins where self-defense ends.

Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

The ends must justify the means.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.