"In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others."

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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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"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

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"All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers."

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"Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read."

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"If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones."

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"What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?"

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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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"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."

"The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out."

"We never live, we are always in the expectation of living."

"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."

"I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms."

"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

"All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers."

"Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read."

"If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones."

"What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?"