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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
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A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.
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All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
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Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.
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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.
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Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
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Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Contemplation and Action, 1902-14 -
But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.
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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
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By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
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Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.
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Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.
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Come what come may,
time and the hour runs through the roughest day.Macbeth (1605) -
Completing any writing project, particularly a novel, is a daunting prospect. Many people become frozen by the prospect. Others keep waiting for the right time. Some wait for the spark of inspiration. Even experienced writers find it is easier to do anything other than actually write.
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Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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