David Duffield quote ✍️

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I had come out of retirement into a very difficult situation with the People Soft takeover, got through it, and was having a good time, frankly. We just ran out of runway at People Soft. Had we had another year, maybe two years, I think we would have made it.
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ENE
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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