"The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron."

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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

Loretta Lynn, American Musician

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"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

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"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

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"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

"When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Time, Desire, Praise

"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

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

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"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

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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."

"When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time."

"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."

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"In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away."

"The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times."

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"Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."

"The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs."

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"Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome."