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“I didn't know if I should put my faith in God or Satan. Was there really a difference at the end of the day, when we were all going to be dead souls anyway?”

Ifs Knows Should Soul Ends Differences Satan The End Of The Day Faith In God

Author:Jess C Scott

“Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end.”

World Mean Ends Next Difficult Differences Achieve Building Taste Occupation Good Taste Building Up

Book:Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

“In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion of holy solemnity.”

Heart Ends Passion Individual Differences Holy Solemnity

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it.”

Mind Ends Action Goal Differences Results Ought Finals Satisfaction Supreme Contentment Our Actions Possessing

Author:Rene Descartes

“In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war.”

Heart War Ends Political Lying Force Differences Amount Solve Civil War Political Differences

Author:Barack Obama

“So long as our relationship is defined by our differences, we will empower those who sow hatred rather than peace, those who promote conflict rather than the cooperation that can help all of our people achieve justice and prosperity. This cycle of suspicion and discord must end.”

People Long Ends Helping Differences Justice Achieve Conflict Hatred Prosperity Defined Empowering Cycles Cooperation Our Relationship Suspicion Discord

Author:Barack Obama

“If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can put an end to anything and any dog does anything like anybody does it what is the difference between eternity and anything.”

Ifs Men Doe Ends Earth Stars Differences Sun Dog Eternity

Book:Everybody's Autobiography

Source: Everybody's Autobiography

“The most part of men, though they have the use of reasoning a little way, as in numbering to some degree; yet it serves them to little use in common life; in which they govern themselves, some better, some worse, according to their differences of experience, quickness of memory, and inclinations to several ends; but specially according to good or evil fortune, and the errors of one another.”

Men Way Littles Ends Use Evil Differences Memories Common Degrees Errors Fortune Reasoning Inclination Quickness Common Life

Book:Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“The seventh rule of the ethics of means and ends is that generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics. The judgment of history leans heavily on the outcome of success or failure; it spells the difference between the traitor and the patriotic hero. There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds he becomes a founding father.”

Ifs Mean Ends Father Differences Successful Hero Succeed Judgment Ethics Outcomes Patriotic Spells Founding Traitor Success Or Failure Rules For Radicals

Book:Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

“Now death is death! and yet is not one death Another death? Stabbing is not the same As shooting! Would you say a strangled man Was drown'd? The end is one, the means are many, And there the difference lies!”

Men Mean Ends Death Lying Differences Shooting Stabbing

Author:Victoria Laurie