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"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used."
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"To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."
Old
"Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him."
Thought
"Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions."
Idea
"The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power."
Power
"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."
Direction
"As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived."
Life
"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy."
Equality
"Carve every word before you let it fall."
Word
"Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government."
Government
"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract."
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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."
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"Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."
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Personal Development
"Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
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