"Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering."
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"We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness."
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"Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted."
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"although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate."
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"Eternity is in love with the productions of time."
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"Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done."
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"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure."
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"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."
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"Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises."
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"All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come."
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"A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at that time - not Hercules, Orpheus, Ulysses and Aeneas - but Superman, Captain Marvel, and Batman."
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"Life is about the moments: Don't wait for them, create them!"
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"Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure."
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"The urgent finds you; you have to find the important. Importance is not fast. It is slow. It is not superficial. It is deep. And as a result, it's extremely powerful. When important matters go wrong, they undermine everything. When they go right, they sustain everything."
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"It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up."
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"Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time."
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"If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion."
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"One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time."
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"At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all."
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"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once."
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