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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats

Friends, Begins, Glory

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi

Whole, Making, Eye

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
John Lennon

Society, Put, Away

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Men, Power, Live

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Means, Pure, Seek

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Long, Die, Until

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein

Age, Confusion, Means

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Charles Caleb Colton

Love, Friendship, Often

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Ernest Hemingway

Life, Same, Another

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin

Anger, Whatever, Shame

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas A. Edison

Work, Busy, Real

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.
Thomas Jefferson

Humor, Good, Truth

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde

Woman, Begins, Retreat

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Edgar Allan Poe

Life, Best, Death

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
William Shenstone

Truth, Liar, Making

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost

Wisdom, Begins, Delight

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard Shaw

Read, Books, Nobody

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.
Jennifer Aniston

Life, Friendship, Romantic

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.
Theodore Roosevelt

Human, Two, Sometimes

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert Frost

Life, Great, Wisdom

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.
Steve Jobs

Design, Together, Soul

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
Hunter S. Thompson

Food, Law, Said

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
Albert Camus

Either, Becoming, Oppressor

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
Ayn Rand

Mind, Gun, Morality

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Night, Friends, Light

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
Voltaire

Time, Men, Alone

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
Soren Kierkegaard

Struggle, Woman, Giving

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
H. L. Mencken

Conscience, Whose, Visit

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
Karl Marx

Men, History, Nothing

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats

History, Alone, Judge

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