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“In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers and streams; like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.”

Source: The Art of War

“We are near, very near, to an end to the eurozone crisis... The worst - in the sense of the fear of the eurozone breaking up - is over. But the best isn't there yet.”

Ends Worst Crisis Eurozone

Author:Francois Hollande

“All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.”

Writing Ends Stories Interest Social Issues

Author:Isabel Allende

“The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.”

“I walked away to get wisdom, but in the end I just walked home.”

Ends Home Education

Author:Lisa Loeb

“No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?”

Years Two Ends Education Sorrow Thousand Endless Thousand Years

Author:Billy Joel

“While Dawn worked two jobs to meet ends, her son was busy cutting school and hanging with his friends.”

Two Ends School Jobs Education Cutting Son Busy Dawn Two Jobs

Author:Slick Rick

“You are the reason. If you want, you are the answer in the end.”

Ifs Want Ends Reason Answers Education

Author:Jon Anderson

“That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the strength and security of all; and so long as the means of effecting this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to government is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be held in the highest veneration”

“We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence.”

Source: Guerrilla Warfare

“10 Rules for Being Human: Rule #1 - You will receive a body. Rule #2 - You will be presented with lessons. Rule #3 - There are no mistakes, only lessons. Rule #4 - The lesson is repeated until learned. Rule #5 - Learning does not end. Rule #6 - "There" is no better than "here". Rule #7 - Others are only mirrors of you. Rule #8 - What you make of your life is up to you. Rule #9 - Your answers lie inside of you. Rule #10 - You will forget all this at birth.”

Humans Doe Ends Body Life Is Lying Answers Forget Mistake Awareness Birth Lessons Mirrors Being Human Up To You

Author:Cherie Carter-Scott

“If we base our belief systems on the humble assumption that the complexities of the world are ontologically beyond our understanding, then maybe our belief systems will make more sense and end up causing less suffering.”

Ifs World Ends Suffering Belief Understanding Logic Humble Certainty Uncertainty Complexity Assumption Reasoning Belief Systems Ontology

Author:Moby

“We know that all must, in the end, stand by the side of the Divine. There is no escape from it, because that is His will.”

Knows Ends God Sides Divine

Book:Some Glimpses of Occultism: Ancient and Modern

Source: Some Glimpses of Occultism: Ancient and Modern

“And God, God who believes in us all. And who's given me this moment, in this lifetime, that I will hopefully carry to the end of my lifetime into the next lifetime.”

Believe Ends Moments God Next Given Lifetime Hopefully Believe In Us Next Lifetime

Author:Forest Whitaker

“Eeyore religion says that the earth isn't worth saving, anyway, and that when it comes to an end, the Faithful will be transported instantly to heaven. No problem. We'd like to see them explain things to Saint Peter at the Gate, when he asks them what they did with the world that God entrusted to them. That might get a bit sticky.”

World Ends Problem Might Earth Asks Heaven Bits Saint Saving Faithful Gates Peter No Problem Sticky Saint Peter

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“I found myself declaiming, full flower, for an hour on the "utmost importance and urgency" of Blogging, telling him in no uncertain terms that, especially in a high-end niche business, Blogging is "the premier way" to have "intimate conversations" with his Clients. Funny thing, I believe it!”

Way Believe Ends Funny Found I Believe Term Hours Flower Conversation Importance Intimate Thoughtful Clients Uncertain Funny Things Urgency Niche Blogging Intimate Conversation

Author:Tom Peters

“We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement.”

Ends Found Decision Plans Conflict Solutions Favors Block Hopefully Summit Enlargement Cyprus

Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“Add one little bit on the end... Think of 'potato,' how's it spelled? You're right phonetically, but what else...? There ya go...alright!”

Thinking Littles Ends Politics Bits Little Bit Add Potatoes Alright

Author:Dan Quayle

“It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.”

People Mean Ends School Order Common Influence Gains Jew

Author:Adam Weishaupt

“What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.”

Thinking World Needs Ends Enough Bigs Happens Energy Levels Focus Users Microsoft Oracles Ibm User Experience

Author:Aaron Levie

“When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, then I don't have it, but at least I'm going to put myself out there. If I fail, I'm going to fail terrifically.”

Ifs Needs Ends Failing Harder The End Of The Day

Author:Ali Larter

“Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients.”

People Kind Ends Together Fiction Combination Ingredients Soup

Author:David Leavitt

“At the end of the day, even if my part is a bit goofy, the key thing is that I'm doing what I love to do, and that's to make people laugh.”

People Ifs Ends Bits Laughing Keys The End Of The Day Making People Laugh Goofy Key Things

Author:Eugene Levy

“After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.”

Way Firsts Ends Enough Wanted Fall Sports Four Changed First Time Albums June Had Enough Singles Billboards Top 10

Author:Huey Lewis

“I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.”

Thinking Years Kind I Can Ends Seems Five Periods Six Years Ago Concrete Dead Ends

Author:James Laughlin

“At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.”

Ifs Wells Kind I Can Different Ends Play Character Would Be Able Beautiful Known Careers Approach Crafts The End Of The Day Different Kinds Beautiful Life

Author:Adepero Oduye

“At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.”

Should Ends Reader Illusion Inevitable

Author:Aprilynne Pike

“Before 'Wings' came out, I told a few people that at the end of book one, readers should think Laurel made the right choice. Then, at the end of 'Spells,' they should understand why Laurel made the choice she did.”

People Thinking Should Made Book Ends Choices Reader Wings Spells Laurels Right Choices

Author:Aprilynne Pike

“I first came to London as a musician, and when my group broke up, I did 'Guys and Dolls' at the Watford Palace theatre. After that, Ned Sherrin found me and brought me to the West End to do one of his shows. The work went from strength to strength, so I thought: 'This is where the world wants me; I'll stay.”

World Want Firsts Ends Shows Guy Found Groups Musician West London Theatre Broke Want Me Palaces Dolls Broke Up West End

Author:Clarke Peters

“I have a very hard time with confrontation in my own life, and I end up being way too nice.”

Way Ends Hard My Own Nice Hard Times Confrontation My Own Life Too Nice

Author:Missi Pyle

“In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.”

Knows Ends Happens Imagination Cases Anxiety Happenings Anticipation

Author:Oren Peli

“Even if you look at the 'Paranormal Activity' movies, at the end of the movie things get really crazy and nutty, but they all start in a very mundane situation that people can relate to, and that's also to some degree what we tried to do in 'Chernobyl Diaries.”

People Ifs Looks Ends Situation Crazy Activity Degrees Relate Paranormal Diaries Get Real Mundane Chernobyl Nutty Paranormal Activity

Author:Oren Peli

“A lot of the listeners don't realize that the Daytona 24 Hours is the most difficult race in the world. It's 24 hours, a lot of darkness because it's held at the end of January, so you're talking about 13-14 hours of darkness.”

World Ends Difficult Realizing Hours Race Talking Darkness Listeners January Daytona

Author:Scott Pruett

“I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.”

Real Ends Sound Records Machines Consumers Factories Tape Mechanic Fidelity Real Education High Fidelity

Author:Alan Parsons

“At the end of the day, things don't get better unless you continue to invest in your workforce. And I've not heard any Republican talk about education and the investment in the future workforce.”

Ends Heard Republican Investment Get Better The End Of The Day Workforce

Author:Bev Perdue

“The centerpiece of 'Law and Order' is the crime, and it starts with the writing. There's a beginning, a middle and an end. It allows the audience to watch any given episode and can drop right in and not feel lost. I think the stark, raw structure has a lot to do with its longevity.”

Thinking Feels Writing Ends Law Order Lost Given Watches Audience Middle Crime Structure Episodes Longevity Starks Law And Order Centerpieces

Author:Danny Pino

“I directed an episode of 'Party of Five' toward the very end of that show. It was a great experience.”

Ends Shows Party Five Episodes Great Experiences

Author:Matthew Fox

“I cry at the end of every book.”

Book Ends Cry

Author:Hunter Parrish

“If Quebecers want to keep the Canadian dollar, they'll keep it - and nobody can stop that, end of debate.”

Ifs Want Ends Dollars Debate

Author:Jacques Parizeau

“Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular.”

War Ends Cold Cold War

Author:Li Peng

“In the 20 years before Greece end up with the Euro, efforts to improve competitiveness through exchange rate and adjustments resulted only in temporary gains of competitiveness.”

Years Ends Effort Gains Rate Temporary Greece Adjustment Euro Competitiveness

Author:Lucas Papademos

“And you know, the people who hate kids and don't want kids always end up having 50 of them.”

People Knows Want Ends Kids Hate

Author:Megan Fox

“I've often said in the past that I thought MTV was sort of evil incarnate and signified the beginning of the end. And I don't know if I'm entirely wrong about that, but they did sign my paychecks a year ago, so I guess I'm part of the problem.”

Ifs Knows Years Said Ends Problem Past Evil Years Ago Paychecks Mtv

Author:Martha Plimpton

“I'm horrible to live with. I don't clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off. I forget to flush the toilet.”

Ends Forget Clothes Clean Horrible Cleaning Toilets Clean Clothes

Author:Megan Fox

“I'm probably an actor that tends to, instead of putting things on, think about it more in terms of taking away what's not in the character, until I'm left with what is. If that makes sense. That's probably a particularly American way of working, but maybe not. The end of any movie is a readjustment.”

Ifs Thinking Way Ends Character Actors Left Term Make Sense

Author:Molly Parker

“The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.”

Ends Directors Mediums Good Times Bottles Lightning Catching Fluidity

Author:Oliver Platt

“At the end of the day, the only things that are shovel ready around here are the words coming out of Barack Obama and Joe Biden's mouth.”

Ends Ready Mouths Barack The End Of The Day Coming Out Shovels Biden

Author:Reince Priebus

“At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.”

Ends Social Media Vote Social Media Vulnerable The End Of The Day Proxy

Author:Sean Parker

“It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.”

Ifs World Way Believe Ends Self Would Be Serving Artificial Self Serving Presumptuous

Author:Sean Parker

“Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.”

May Ends Whole Helping Young Economy Generations Modern Building Willing Offers Conflict Resources Israel Aspiration Spite Regions Realising Palestinian Limited Resources

Author:Shimon Peres

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