"In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?"

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"Life is defined by time and seasons."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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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."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"A realization that even if you had discovered the future, it really didn't change how you lived in the present. They were truth, but they weren't all the truth."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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

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"Hurry up, before there's no more night left."

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"They say "time is money". But I want to say "time makes money". This means time is greater than money."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time's fool,And Time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"All things are made beautiful at a timely hour."

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"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?"

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"It s never too late to save time."

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"You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it."

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"Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free."

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"If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one."

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"The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting."

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"A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain."

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