"The passions of the young are vices in the old."
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"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time."
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"For tribal man, space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role."
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"The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us."
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"The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself."
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"Time is the scarcest resource."
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"Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time."
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"In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead."
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"All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time."
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"Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks."
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"If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life."
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"We suffer the stress of infinite opportunity: There are so many things that we could do, and all we see are people who seem to be performing at star quality. It's very hard not to try to be like them. The problem is, if you get wrapped up in that game, you'll get eaten alive. You can do anything-but not everything. The universe is full of creative projects that are waiting to be done. So, if you really care about quality of life, if you want to relax, then ... control your aspirations. That will simplify things. Learning to set boundaries is incredibly difficult for most people."
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"Imagine for a moment your own version of a perfect future. See yourself in that future with everything you could wish for at this very moment fulfilled. Now take the memory of that future and bring it here into the present. Let it influence how you will behave from this moment on."
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"We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other."
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"The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal."
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"What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices."
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"Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else."
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"We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own."
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"Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time."
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"So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?""
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