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  • Francis Bacon He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Oscar Wilde He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Voltaire He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Jefferson He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Billy Connolly Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time.
    Billy Connolly
    Scottish stand-up comedian, musician, actor (1942 - )
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  • Adriana Lima Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.
    Adriana Lima
    Brazilian model and actress (1981 - )
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  • C. A. R. Hoare Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.
    Source: Hints on Programming Language Design, December 1973
    C. A. R. Hoare
    British computer scientist
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  • Walt Whitman Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Bliss Carman Here's to the day when it is May
    And care as light as a feather,
    When your little shoes and my big boots
    Go tramping over the heather.
    Source: A Toast
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Barry Lam High tech is for a short time. But art is forever. People still admire a Picasso or a Van Gogh. But they don't admire the steam locomotive anymore.
    Barry Lam
    Taiwanese billionaire businessman (1949 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Hillary Clinton is not that fascinating a person. According to those who have spent time with her, she's harsh and demanding. According to those who haven't - like her husband - she's a delight.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Bridget Riley His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.
    Bridget Riley
    English painter (1931 - )
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  • John B. Gough His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.
    John B. Gough
     
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Ben Bernanke History has demonstrated time and again the inherent resilience and recuperative powers of the American economy.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg Hog Butcher for the World,
    Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
    Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
    Stormy, husky, brawling,
    City of the Big Shoulders.
    Source: Chicago (1916)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Brendan Myers Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of all time, such as Alexander the Great, Pericles of Athens, Hannibal of Carthage, and Julius Caesar of Rome, were all pagans, or else living in a pagan society.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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