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  • Alan Kay Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
    Alan Kay
    American computer scientist (1940 - )
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  • Warren Buffett Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Hervey Allen The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
    Hervey Allen
    American author (1889 - 1949)
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  • Carl Sandburg The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • John F. Kennedy The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
    Second State of the Union Address, 11-01-1962
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • William James There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Geoffrey Chaucer There's never a new fashion but it's old.
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    British poet (1340 - 1400)
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  • Andy Warhol They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge Throw away the Old Testament! What part of it will you throw away? That which I do not understand? Take down then yonder blood-stained cross; for there is a love there which passeth knowledge, and a Divine hatred of sin which shook the solid earth.
    Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • John Steinbeck Time is the only critic without ambition.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Voltaire Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Emily Dickinson To live is so starling it leaves little time for anything else.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Budd Schulberg Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.
    Budd Schulberg
    American screenwriter, television producer and novelist (1914 - 2009)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Anne C. Weisberg We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes mismatches between old expectations and current realities.
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