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"If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college."
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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."
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Personal Development
"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"
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Personal Development
"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."
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Personal Development
"Wouldn't it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? You can. If you can foresee regret, you can mind-travel to the future. If you can train yourself to mind-travel effectively, you can intentionally affect your future by doing something about it today."
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Personal Development
"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."
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Personal Development
"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."
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Personal Development
"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."
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Personal Development
"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
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Personal Development
"The value of time is immeasurable."
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Personal Development
"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."
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"I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system."
Goal
"The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should."
Education
"I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us."
Life
"Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them."
Man
"Do the job first. Worry about the clearance later."
Priority
"It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is."
Life
"Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down."
Enthusiasm
"The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin."
Nature
"My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities."
Parenting
"In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems."
Peace
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