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Lennart Meri

"In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary."

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"In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary."

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"Life is defined by time and seasons."

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"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."

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"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

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"They say "time is money". But I want to say "time makes money". This means time is greater than money."

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"But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time's fool,And Time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop."

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"All things are made beautiful at a timely hour."

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"Much rain wears the marble."

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"Don't depend on the thoughts, "I need more time". There are only 24 hours in each day. You can't make it 25 or 26. You just have to plan your activities very well so as to achieve the expected things with the natural time limit."

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"Four days will quickly steep themselves in nightsFour nights will quickly dream away the time."

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"We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it."

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"Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave."
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"Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me."
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"Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't."
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"I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table."
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"If geography is prose, maps are iconography."
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"History is more interesting than politics."
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"Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature."
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"Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another."
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