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- The only way to last a really long time is to build something useful enough that people will want to keep it going after you die, and to cultivate a sense of ownership in other people. In short: make good shit and give it away as fast as you can.
- Lisa Williams, The Lessons of Nixon, 05-19-06
- Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
- Theophrastus (372 BC - 287 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.
- John Le Carre (1931 - ), Magnus Pym in "A Perfect Spy"
- They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
- Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987), The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
- You may delay, but time will not.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
- Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times
- Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story.
- Don Snyder, Of Time and Memory
- It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
- Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - ), "A Wreath of Roses"
- To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
- Gerry Spence, How to Argue and Win Every Time
- But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
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