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- Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
- Richard Bach
- Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
- Bernard Baruch
- To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
- Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC)
- The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
- Tom Robbins (1936 - ), Still Life With Woodpecker
- Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
- Rodin (1840 - 1917)
- To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Orator
- Any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
- Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
- Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
- Alfred Sheinwold
- Take Nothing but Pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time. - Motto of the Baltimore Grotto (caving society)
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