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  • Carlo Collodi Once upon a time there was... A king! my young readers will instantly exclaim. No, children, you are wrong. Once upon a time there was a piece of wood.
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Bob Dylan Once upon a time you dressed so fine, threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you.
    People call, say beware doll, you're bound to fall, you thought they were all, kiddin you.
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Anthony Robbins Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Baruch Spinoza One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • C. K. Williams One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
    C. K. Williams
    American poet, critic and translator (1936 - 2015)
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  • Bernard Cornwell One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Norman Douglas One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Bernard Malamud One can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
    Dubins Lives p. 27.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Wallace Stevens One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Boris Yeltsin One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.
    Speaking to the press following a postively productive meeting with Bill Clinton (24 October 1995)
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Winston Churchill One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Plautus One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Carl Sagan One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Peace Pilgrim One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Henry David Thoreau One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • John Wanamaker One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
    John Wanamaker
    American merchant and religious (1838 - 1922)
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  • Ezra Pound One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Baltasar Gracián One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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