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Diogenes Philosopher
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"When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can."

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Bruce Lee Martial Artist, Actor, Director
Time

"The timeless moment. - The "moment" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time."

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Andre Weil Mathematician
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"Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced . . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously . . . this feeling may last for hours at a time, even for days. Once you have experienced it, you are eager to repeat it but unable to do it at will, unless perhaps by dogged work. . . ."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life."

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