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"Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed."
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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."

"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!"

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

"The value of time is immeasurable."

"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

"Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in that fact, one day before my birthday will come, one day before I will finish... (So far one day is popular... that's a fact called itself zipf law... )...Call it how you want, but for my it's zipfy law!"
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"No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people."

"The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class."

"The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters."

"A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state."

"There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems."

"It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most."

"Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon."

"The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race."

"The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business."
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