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• You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

  ― Ray Bradbury
  American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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• A ''modern'' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

  ― Elias Canetti
  Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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• A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles... it takes your mind off the cost of living.

  ― Brendan Behan
  Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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• A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.

  ― Sacha Guitry
  French playwright, actor and director (ps. of Alexandre Georges- (1885 - 1957)
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• Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.

  Source: Animal Dreams

  ― Barbara Kingsolver
  American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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• I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.

  ― Denis Diderot
  French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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• I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

  ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
  Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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• I start where the last man left off.

  ― Thomas Alva Edison
  American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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• Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

  ― Lord Chesterfield
  English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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• Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.

  ― Andre Breton
  French writer (1896 - 1966)
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• Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

  ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
  Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• procrastination
• everything
• conscience
• dangerous
• idleness
• tomorrow

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