"I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth."

Time, People, God, Earth

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"I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth."

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"I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth."

Time, People, God, Earth

"My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry."

Family, Children, First

"There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age."

Age, Old

"More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to."

People, English, Rest, World

"The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know."

Knowledge, Remarkable

"When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression."

Expression, Race

"I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container."

Thought, Night

"I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting."

Science, Trying, Writing

"There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again."

Home, Life, Company

"The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population."

Economy, Population, World

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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Wouldn't it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? You can. If you can foresee regret, you can mind-travel to the future. If you can train yourself to mind-travel effectively, you can intentionally affect your future by doing something about it today."

Richie Norton, American Author

Time, Regret, Future, Action

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Time, Life, Haste, Housekeeping

"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."

Stephen King, American Author

Time, Regret, Today, Future

"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Time, God, Idea, Invention

"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

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