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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
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There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you do not let other people spend it for you.
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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.
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A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
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A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
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A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
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Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.
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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.
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