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- All human power is a compound of time and patience.
- Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
- Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.
- Marya Mannes
- Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.
- Marabel Morgan, The Electric Woman
- There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as "nutty methods." Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time."
- Scott Adams (1957 - ), The Dilbert Future
- I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.
- General Curtis Le May
- It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist
- The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.
- James Taylor
- It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.
- Jacob Bigelow
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