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"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."

"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

"We were the only two people in the entire airport who lost total track of time, for we were consumed by space-time at that present moment. Time was irrelevant to our existence, for we didn't want to exist outside the tight and glorious knots of each other's arms. Time is basically an illusion created by the mind to aid in our sense of temporal presence in the vast ocean of space. Without the neurons to create a virtual perception of the past and the future based on all our experiences, there is no actual existence of the past and the future. All that there is, is the present."
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"I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office."

"No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies."

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

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

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

"If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past."

"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."
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