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"The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation."
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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."
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"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!"
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"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."
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"Wouldn't it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? You can. If you can foresee regret, you can mind-travel to the future. If you can train yourself to mind-travel effectively, you can intentionally affect your future by doing something about it today."
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"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."
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"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."
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"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."
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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
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"The value of time is immeasurable."
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"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."
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"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."
Success
"If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted."
Imagination
"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."
Work
"A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius."
Talent
"So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational."
Discipline
"We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind."
Impression
"To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration."
Etiquette
"The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse."
Mind
"Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction."
Government
"Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God."
God
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