Quotes with time-wasting

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  • Bill Moyers For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Hubert Humphrey For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Carl Sagan For the first time, we have the power to decide the fate of our planet and ourselves. This is a time of great danger, but our species is young, and curious, and brave. It shows much promise.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 05 min 20 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bipasha Basu For the longest time, Indian women have been okay with being curvy. But I think the modern Indian woman needs to get toned. I don't endorse being thin. Anorexia and bulimia are a reality in India because everybody wants to be thin.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • Armistead Maupin For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very appreciative things. It affords me a great deal of pleasure.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Margaret Mead For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Tennessee Williams For time is the longest distance between two places.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Tatyana Tolstaya For us, the best time is always yesterday.
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  • Virginia Woolf For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Solomon For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.
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  • Douglas Jerrold Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Alfred de Vigny France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Bertrand Russell Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Beilby Porteus Friend to the wretch whom every friend forsakes, I woo thee, Death! Life and its joys I leave to those that prize them. Hear me, 0 gracious God! At Thy good time let Death approach; I reck not, let him but come in genuine form, not with Thy vengeance armed, too much for man to bear.
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • Francis Bacon Friends are thieves of time.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Carmen Sylva Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.
    Carmen Sylva
    Ps. van Elisabeth zu Wied, Queen of Romania (1843 - 1916)
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  • Truman Capote Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • T. S. Eliot Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Ben Horowitz From a systematic standpoint, I think that capitalism is the best system. I can spend a lot of time explaining why I like communism, but it is actually not a good solution. Nor is socialism. So, capitalism is the right model.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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