"To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom."
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"I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
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"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."
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"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."
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"We convince by our presence."
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"Pleasure and action make the hours seem short."
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"God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called."
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"The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back."
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"It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts."
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"I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive,- what time, what circuit first, I ask not; but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive: He guides me and the bird. In his good time."
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"Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it."
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"The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing."
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"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in."
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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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"Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future."
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"It doesn't happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time."
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"Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait."
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"The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity."
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"New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved."
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"No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience."
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