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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."

"Time is inexplicable because it moves " clicks away " at steady increments, while increasing the past and bringing the future into the present. Time has a necessary affinity with both heaven and the earthly reality. 'Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it is the soul of the world.' Plato said that time and heaven must be coexistent. Without time nothing can be created or generated in the universe, nor is anything intelligible without eternity. Time is no accident or affection, but the cause, power, and principle of the symmetry and order that confines all created beings, by which the animated nature of the universe moves."

"You may need an additional money to make things happen and have it, but you can have an additional time anywhere. Value your time; as you wait, it is passing!"

"Today is a gift that will be taken from you at day's end. Don't waste a moment, a chance, a lesson. You'll never live today again."
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"If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past."

"Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up."

"I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured."

"The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem."

"Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."

"We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation."
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