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- I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662), "Lettres provinciales", letter 16, 1657
- History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Pro Publio Sestio
- It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
- Time the devourer of all things.
- Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD), Metamorphoses
- It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics.
- Denise Caruso, (digital commerce columnist, New York Times)
- Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
- Pliny the Elder (23 AD - 79 AD), Natural History
- How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery. - Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), The Divine Comedy
- The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)
- The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Strength to Love, 1963
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