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The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.
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Fast drivers can see no further than slow drivers, but they must look further down the road to time their reactions safely.…
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The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication,…
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True intimacy is a human constant. People of all types find it equally hard to achieve, equally precious to hold. Age, education,…
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Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural wholes, static…
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That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines our defenses,…
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Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.
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At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains;…
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Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.
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We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie…
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If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look…
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The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves.
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I do smoke, but I don't go through all this trouble just because I want to make my drug of choice legal.…
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If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look…
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She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French…
— Raymond Chandler
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
— Dorothy Parker
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And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.
— Olga Korbut
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I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and…
— Arthur Miller
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Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived…
— George Bernard Shaw
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In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that…
— Sam Harris
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I’m a professional bodyguard. (Leta) Yeah, right. (Aiden) Nope. All true. I know seventy-two ways to kill a man and sixty-nine of…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Go back, go back to sleep. Yes, you are allowed. You who have no Love in your heart, you can go back…
— Unknown Author
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She still had her bad days, no question, when the black dog of depression sniffed her out and settled its crushing weight…
— Lev Grossman
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Sure, losing an election hurts, but I've experienced worse. And at an age when every day is precious, brooding over what might…
— Bob Dole
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