Quotes with past-time

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  • Bruce Schneier When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • Carlos Ghosn When a company is facing a problem, it always takes a stance and takes a decision, but at the same time it wants to make sure of what it can learn from it, what enhancements it can make.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Elie Wiesel When a Jew visits Jerusalem for the first time, it is not the first time; it is a homecoming.
    Arutz Sheva (17 April 2010)
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Alexander Chase When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.
    Alexander Chase
    American journalist and editor (1926 - )
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  • Helen Rowland When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • C. S. Forester When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.
    The African Queen (1935)
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Thomas Szasz When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Arthur Ransome When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.
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  • Jean Cocteau When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Campbell Brown When an organization is willing to support only lawmakers who are with it 100 percent of the time, it virtually guarantees that the debate will be bitterly partisan.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Bernard M. Baruch When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Boy George When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Bill Gross When does money run out of time? The countdown begins when investable assets pose too much risk for too little return; when lenders desert credit markets for other alternatives such as cash or real assets.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Alan Alda When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld When everything is good, maybe I think it's the time to do something else.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • François Truffaut When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.
    François Truffaut
    French filmmaker (1932 - 1984)
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  • Winston Churchill When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Abraham Lincoln When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Anthony Minghella When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money.
    Anthony Minghella
    British film director, playwright and screenwriter (1954 - 2008)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, ALWAYS.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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