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Lasts Quotes by Christopher Dawson
- But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get…
- No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe has done during…
- Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal…
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- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Fight to the last gasp. — William Shakespeare
- No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad… — Thomas Jefferson
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. — Samuel Johnson
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson