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- Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Rape of Lucrece
- The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act I, sc. 5
- I wasted time and now doth time waste me.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Richard II, Act V, sc. 5
- But 'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act I, sc. 3
- I find the great in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,-but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1891
- Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
- Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967), The Art of Living
- The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.
- Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 - 1859), Democracy in America, 1835
- Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural Adress, January 20, 1961
- The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explination.
- Hilton Kramer, The New York Times art critic, in the late 1960
- It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. but business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine
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