Ultimate Quotes

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The ultimate check against government tyranny is an informed electorate who will elect people who believe in limited government. I don't want to embrace the… — Lindsey Graham
I think for any writer, creating and controlling your own property is the ultimate dream. — J. Michael Straczynski
When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do.… — Ben Stiller
L]iberalism holds that the resources (divine and human) that are available for the achievement of meaningful change justify an attitude of ultimate optimism — James Luther Adams
Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything.… — Laozi
[The Christmas story] is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. SA simple as the Sermon on the Mount which still remains… — Hal Borland
The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood. — Arthur Koestler
President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom, and his willingness… — Colin Powell
When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand the value and… — Twyla Tharp
The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment. — Arthur Miller
Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in… — Paul Gauguin
Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity. — Thomas Sowell
The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning. — John Cage
At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from… — John Berger
We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do... forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance,… — Evelyn Underhill
The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement… — William Howard Taft
Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they… — Ludwig von Mises
Not many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury; nowadays itÂ’s often freedom from information, the chance to… — Pico Iyer
Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared, 'is… — Richard M. Weaver

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