"Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours"
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"There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them at the aquarium at the Jardin des Plantes and stayed for hours watching them, observing their immobility; their faint movements. Now I am an axolotl."
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"If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work beyond beyond the time necessary for the reproduction of his means of subsistence, say 8 hours a day."
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"I seek and don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots."
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"Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good."
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"Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value."
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"there are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls"
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"Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats."
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"I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day."
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"There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music."
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"We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble."
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"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?"
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"Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman."
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"A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images."
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"Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours."
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"Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life."
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"You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour."
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"It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go."
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"Work eight hours a day for a living and many more hours a day making movies and you'll work all your life to be a success overnight."
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"Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death."
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