"In order to have a change of fortune at the last minute, you have to take your fortune to the last minute."
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"Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes."
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"The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes."
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"If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song."
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"Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes"
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"The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation - however minute"
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"Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few."
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"I wanted to stay this way forever. Which, it turns out, was exactly five more minutes."
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"I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you."
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"My god, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minute in tenth-rate thinking."
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"Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word."
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"For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth."
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"I couldn't kill myself. I would be afraid the minute I did it; something really good would happen and I'd miss it."
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"Be fully present for five minutes every day."
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"but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it."
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"We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted."
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"I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the pain of a life suppressed, of happiness never to be."
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"The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right."
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"And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner."
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"I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency."
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