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“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.”— Thomas Carlyle
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“For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.”— Aristotle
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“Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.”— Thomas J. Watson
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“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”— Henry Ford
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“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.”— Karl Marx
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“If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.”— Benjamin Franklin
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“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”— George Bernard Shaw
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“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”— Bertrand Russell
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“Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.”— H. L. Mencken
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“In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.”— Voltaire
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“A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.”— George Bernard Shaw
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“The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.”— Will Rogers
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“The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.”— Julia Child
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“No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.”— Ronald Reagan
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“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.”— George Bernard Shaw
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“The time I kill is killing me.”— Mason Cooley
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“A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.”— H. L. Mencken
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“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”— Marcus Aurelius
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“I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.”— H. G. Wells
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“The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.”— George Carlin
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“Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.”— Friedrich Schiller
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“We must use time creatively.”— Martin Luther King, Jr.