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Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
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Those whom God hath joined together let no one put asunder. To Anne Hewlett Fuller on this, our 63rd Wedding Anniversary and my 85 Birthday---July 12, 1980
Critical Path (1981)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.
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Through all the employments of life each neighbor abuses his brother; whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another.
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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
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Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike;
One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio LXI, To Fool, or Knave, lines 1-2. -
Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.
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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.
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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) 96 -
Time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
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Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
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