Famous quotes containing the words stanley, cup and/or final:
“It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance spells disaster, and to whom unlimited energy means unlimited power for war and destruction, there is an ominous cloud in the distance though at present it be no bigger than a mans hand.”
—Arthur Stanley Eddington (18821944)
“In poorer lands
No one touches the water of life.
It has no taste
And though it refreshes absolutely
It is a cup that must also pass
Until everybody
Gets some advantage....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.”
—Thomas Paine (17371809)
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