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  • Carl Sandburg 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.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Katharine Hepburn To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • William Shakespeare With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Dr. W. Edwards Deming A bad system will beat a good person every time.
    Dr. W. Edwards Deming
    American engineer, statistician, professor and author (1900 - 1993)
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  • Alice Meynell A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton 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.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Eric Hoffer A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Marguerite Duras 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.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Thomas Paine 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.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli 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.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Mario Puzo A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
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    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Barbara de Angelis A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Jean Paul A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Bertrand Russell 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.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Confucius Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Groucho Marx Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Marcus Aurelius 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.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Francis Bacon Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Henry Ford Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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