"I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent."

Time, Being

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"I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent."

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"Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song."

Zoltan Kodaly, Hungarian Composer

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"It was always me and the other guy. I came in second for a long time."

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"Time management is a big part of the director's job."

Debbie Allen, American Actress

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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 passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains."

Julian Barbour, British Scientist

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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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"Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence."

Khaled Hosseini, Afghan Novelist

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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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"In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it."

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"Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but live for it."

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"Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it."

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"Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase."

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"Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride."

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"He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later."

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"There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter."

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"To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."

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"The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later."

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"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."

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