"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting."

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"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting."

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"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Time, Poor, Poverty, Questions

"Time is standing still. We are measuring ourselves by how far we are going."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Measurement, Life

"Forever, time is standing still. We are flying away with the wings of desire we call life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Desire, Life, Eternity

"Life is defined by time and seasons."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Time, Seasons, Define, Life

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

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Time, Value, Minute, Perspective

"Past, I am letting you go. Future, I will see you tomorrow. Present, I love you, live in you, celebrate you, and will never let you go."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Past, Present, Future

"The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Time, Habit, Day

"A realization that even if you had discovered the future, it really didn't change how you lived in the present. They were truth, but they weren't all the truth."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Time, Future, Truth, Reality, Present

"You can never live in the past. You always live in the tiny gap between the present and the future."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Past, Present, Future

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

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Time, Productivity, Efficiency, Busyness, Value

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"The ass is the face of the soul of sex."

Nature

"The world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and withthem."

Nature

"All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love. We're like slugs. Slug-love, I call it."

Love

"(The whole world is at the throat of the world, everybody feels angry, short-changed, cheated, everybody is despondent, disillusioned). I welcomed shots of peace, tattered shards of happiness."

Society

"The flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and the men drink too much and nobody finds the one but keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh."

Desire

"Nothing's news.it's the same old thing indisguise.only one thing comes without adisguise and you only see itonce, ormaybe never.like getting hit by a freighttrain.makes us realize that all ourmoaning about long lost girlsin gingham dressesis not so importantafterall."

Reality

"My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure."

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"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

"Time is standing still. We are measuring ourselves by how far we are going."

"Forever, time is standing still. We are flying away with the wings of desire we call life."

"Life is defined by time and seasons."

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

"Past, I am letting you go. Future, I will see you tomorrow. Present, I love you, live in you, celebrate you, and will never let you go."

"The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it."

"A realization that even if you had discovered the future, it really didn't change how you lived in the present. They were truth, but they weren't all the truth."

"You can never live in the past. You always live in the tiny gap between the present and the future."

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

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"The ass is the face of the soul of sex."

"The world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and withthem."

"Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it."

"Having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor."

"The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn't care."

"All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love. We're like slugs. Slug-love, I call it."

"(The whole world is at the throat of the world, everybody feels angry, short-changed, cheated, everybody is despondent, disillusioned). I welcomed shots of peace, tattered shards of happiness."

"The flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and the men drink too much and nobody finds the one but keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh."

"Nothing's news.it's the same old thing indisguise.only one thing comes without adisguise and you only see itonce, ormaybe never.like getting hit by a freighttrain.makes us realize that all ourmoaning about long lost girlsin gingham dressesis not so importantafterall."

"My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure."