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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
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A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it.
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Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
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Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.
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In the United States in the 20th century, every major event that America was going through, there was a boxer who seemed to symbolically represent it, from slavery to the Vietnam War to the Depression - all the way along, you just seemed to have boxers that carried the narrative.
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It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
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It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are.
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One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
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The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.
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If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
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(George H. W. Bush) won't take the lead in protecting the environment and creating new jobs in environmental technologies for the 21st century, but I will. And you know what else? He doesn't have Al Gore, and I do.
A Place Called Hope, speech to the 1992 Democratic National Convention accepting the Democratic nomination for President (July 16, 1992) -
...the nineteenth century Age of Expansion... brought on an acceleration of the main focus of the activities of society... from the areas of internal controls to the areas of external controls....the increasing role of propaganda... helped create an impression of stability.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
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A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.
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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late.
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A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.
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