"I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out."
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"Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules."
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"The busy bee has no time for sorrow."
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"Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it."
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"There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered."
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"At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows."
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"The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to realize the trick time is playing, and that unless you do something about it, the passage of time is nothing but the encroachment of the horrible banality of the past on the pure future. The past devours the future like a tape recorder, converting pure possibility into banality. The present is the tape head, the mouth of time. Then where is the mystery and why bother kicking through the ashes? Because there is a clue in the past."
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"I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy."
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"Hurry up, please, its time."
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"There is a need for heroism in American life today."
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"What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?"
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"There is time for everything."
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"Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth."
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"Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours."
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"This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks measure. Instead, everyone would have his own personal time. The clocks of two people would agree if they were at rest with respect to each other but not if they were moving. This has been confirmed by a number of experiments, including one in which an extremely accurate timepiece was flown around the world and then compared with one that had stayed in place. If you wanted to live longer, you could keep flying to the east so the speed of the plane added to the earth"
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"A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth."
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"Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time."
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"The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production."
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"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."
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"In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself."
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