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- 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
- Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar
- Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
- Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983)
- Opportunity for all means making taxes fair. I'm not out to soak the rich. But I do believe the rich should pay their fair share. For twelve years, the Republicans have raised taxes on the middle class. It's time to give the middle class tax relief.
- Bill Clinton (1946 - ), Announcement Speech, October 3, 1991
- Ronald Reagan and George Bush pushed through programs that raised taxes on the middle class. I think it's time to cut them. And in my administration I'll offer a middle-income tax cut that will cut rates on the middle class.
- Bill Clinton (1946 - ), Georgetown University, November 20,1991
- You have a part-time job, and that's better than no job at all.
- Dan Quayle (1947 - ), after the manager of the Burger King had said that the jobs offered were part-time minimum wage jobs which didn't pay enough to live on, and that "It's hard to find people who want to actually show up
- Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.
- Tom Wolfe (1931 - ), "Bonfire of the Vanities"
- It is [the] belief in absolutes, I would hazard, that is the great enemy today of the life of the mind. This may seem a rash proposition. The fashion of the time is to denounce relativism as the root of all evil. But history suggests that the damage done to humanity by the relativist is far less than the damage done by the absolutist - by the fellow who, as Mr. Dooley once put it, "does what he thinks th' Lord wud do if He only knew th' facts in th' case."
- Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
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