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To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.
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To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.
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To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.
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To talk without effort is, after all, the great charm of talking.
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To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
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To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
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To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.
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To this day, just always treat people the way you want to be treated. Whether it's family or friends or co-workers, I think it's the most important thing. Whether you have success or don't have it, whether you're a good person is all that matters.
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To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.
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To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
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To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
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