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"You were endowed with the treasure of time so that you could buy greatness with it."

"There is worth everywhere and in everything we see."

"The value of a substance is the product of the time spent to achieve it."

"You are beloved; even if you were the last person on earth, the sun would rise for you."

"If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics."

"Too many people die early, either tragically or natural death, because they did not treat their lives with any sense of value."

"If your coming into the world was a mistake, then you are the most beautiful error in the universe."

"Water is gold in the desert."
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"In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right."

"When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need."

"Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up."

"You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever."

"Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of."

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it."

"I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box."

"There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value."

"We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives."
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