"Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay."
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"Every delay that postpones our joys, is long. [Lat., Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt.]"
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"Do not delay, Do not delay: the golden moments fly!"
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"Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change."
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"I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living."
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"The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation"
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"Information on how to heal autism and how to possibly delay vaccines or prevent autism shouldn't come from me. It should come from the medical establishment."
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"The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response"
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"The loiterer often imputes delay to his more active friend."
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"Individual companies now have the voluntary responsibility of recalling their own products. While many companies have acted properly and swiftly to recall contaminated goods, the delay between the identification of tainted foods and the company's decision to recall those foods leads to the needless sickness of too many Americans."
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"It seemed better to delay thinking."
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"It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month I find myself in the same place as when I began it."
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"By-and-by is easily said."
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"In many offices it could take several days to find a paper chart and some we'll never find. Ten percent of the paper records are never found. So you have this huge delay in time."
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"...Omit nothing which can advance his work, and not blame others for the delay."
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"Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat."
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"Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased."
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"True love hates and will not bear delay."
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"The only reason to delay at this point was because the immediate prospect was so deeply uninviting."
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"There is no such thing as abstract Marxism, only concrete Marxism... The Sinofication of Marxism - that is, making certain that its manifestation is imbued with Chinese peculiarities - is a problem that must be understood and solved by the party without delay."
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