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- Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.
- John Randolph (1773 - 1833)
- These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Public and Private Education, November 27, 1864
- These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Public and Private Education, November 27, 1864
- Ask counsel of both times-of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Of Great Place, 1625
- How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.
- James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, 1826
- I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to flexible at all times.
- Everett Mckinley Dirkson
- The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)
- You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.
- Franklin P. Jones
- We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than to simply fight for it.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), 1946
- Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again.
- Scott Adams (1957 - )
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