full stop
Noun
Meaning
a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
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An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.
A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is in limbo and doesn't come to life until the reader picks it up and the reader flips the pages.
If the year 2000 can help us move into the future, that's fine, but I am afraid that people see it as a full stop and that one can take a big breath afterwards - you can't.
I don't operate under threats. Full stop. I don't. I don't buckle to pressure.
The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.
You should never, ever be understood completely. That's like the kiss of death, isn't it? It's a full stop. I don't ever think you should put full stops on thoughts. They change.