"There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world."

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"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Life, Best Use, Mind

"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

Loretta Lynn, American Musician

Time, Being

"Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Time, Illusion, Life, Present

"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Time, Universe, Words

"Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Time, Now, Right, Writer

"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

"Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Time, Nothing, Wrong, Years

"Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Time, Truth, Wisdom, Change

"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."

Dave Eggers, American Writer

Time, Compassion, Listening, Open

"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."

John Ruskin, English Writer

Time, People, Right

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"Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other."

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"Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation."

Beauty

"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."

Debate

"Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman."

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"It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him."

God

"Space is the stature of God."

God

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"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."

"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

"Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present."

"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."

"Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough."

"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."

"Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent."

"Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it."

"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."

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"Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other."

"Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings."

"Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision."

"Children need models rather than critics."

"The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight."

"Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation."

"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."

"Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman."

"It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him."

"Space is the stature of God."