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Ends Quotes by Gore Vidal
- Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.
- When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then an American president…
- Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions.
- The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. Then there is the business of…
- It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the… — Dido Armstrong
- It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman
- We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they… — C.S. Lewis
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda
- I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I… — Diane Ackerman