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"Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock."
"An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them."
"You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time."
"When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that 'he hadn't come to Asia with the intention of accepting whatever they cared to give him, but of letting them keep whatever he chose to leave them.' Philosophy, likewise, tells all other occupations: 'It's not my intention to accept whatever time is leftover from you; you shall have, instead, what I reject.' Give your whole mind to her."
"Live with no time-out."
"I've always been keenly aware of the passing of time. I've always thought that I was old. Even when I was twelve, I thought it was awful to be thirty. I felt that something was lost. At the same time, I was aware of what I could gain, and certain periods of my life have taught me a great deal. But, in spite of everything, I've always been haunted by the passing of time and by the fact that death keeps closing in on us."
"For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay."
"Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time."
"To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer."
"What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold."
"Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time."
"One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time."
"A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience."
"History employs evolution to structure biological events in time."
"I Xeroxed my watch. Now I have time to spare."
"I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it."
"The Past, the Future, O dear, is from you; you should regard both these as one."
"God says to me with a kind of smile, "Hey how would you like to be God awhile And steer the world?" . . . . "How much do I get? What time is lunch?" . . . . "Gimme back that wheel," says God. "I don't think you're quite ready yet.""
"Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand."
"A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything."
