"Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not."

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"Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not."

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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

Evita Peron, Argentinian Statesman

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"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work."

Karl Kraus, Austrian Writer

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"Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet."

Chris Brown, American Musician

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"Time is running out to permeate the piece."

Tommy Tune, American Dancer

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"We have not the time to take our time."

Eugene Ionesco, French Dramatist

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"No money can buy back the moment that is gone"

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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"Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

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"I don't have to worry No matter what they do to it, it works."

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"In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise."

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