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Philip Greenspun

"If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web."

Philip Greenspun, American Scientist
Time, Ideas, Writer
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"If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web."

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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

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"Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist
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"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist
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"Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough."

Anne Rice, American Novelist
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"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist
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"Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent."

Terry Pratchett, English Author
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"Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it."

C. S. Lewis, British Author
Time, Truth, Wisdom, Change
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"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."

Dave Eggers, American Writer
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"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."

John Ruskin, English Writer
Time, People, Right

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