"Maybe that's what I've based my career on: getting up earlier than everyone else so I get an extra couple of hours."
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"From its origin to the present hour, in all its vicissitudes, Masonry has been the steady unwearing friend of man."
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"I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out."
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"I shall seeThe hour of death draw near to me,Hope, blossoming within my heart. . . ."
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"I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot"
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"It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be."
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"It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing evokes a so what attitude."
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"Invest the first hour of the day, the 'Golden Hour,' in yourself."
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"The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more."
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"What is it about death that bothers me? Probably the hours."
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"Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity."
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"Pleasure and action make the hours seem short."
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"The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment."
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"What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours."
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"We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass."
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"Some people you can afford to spend a few minutes with, but not a few hours."
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"You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year."
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"I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach."
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"To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom - one brief hour of madness and joy."
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"Every hour of useful work is precious."
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