"It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service."
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"Creativity is the residue of time wasted."
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"It's very depressing to live in a time where it's easier to break an atom than a prejudice."
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"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always."
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"A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive."
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"I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time."
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"It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character."
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"I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else."
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"An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick"
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"Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?"
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"Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky!"
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"Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!"
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"But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave."
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"One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies."
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"Words fail, there are times when even they fail."
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"Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste."
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"We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count."
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"Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy."
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"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday."
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"People are the least creative when fighting the clock... Time pressure stifles creativity because people can't deeply engage with the problem."
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