"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."
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"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
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"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."
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"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana"
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"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."
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"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever."
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
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"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
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"Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower."
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"Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them."
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"Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time."
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"Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach."
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"Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future."
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"Operating superficially, the mind is random in its activity and stale in its insights and images. However, with practice and experience the mind is freed from the skull, and the fresh and new can appear as though for the first time. It"
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"Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time."
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"It's been a long time since I've been me."
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"Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that."
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"My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals"
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"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."
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"No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen."
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