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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."

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

"We were the only two people in the entire airport who lost total track of time, for we were consumed by space-time at that present moment. Time was irrelevant to our existence, for we didn't want to exist outside the tight and glorious knots of each other's arms. Time is basically an illusion created by the mind to aid in our sense of temporal presence in the vast ocean of space. Without the neurons to create a virtual perception of the past and the future based on all our experiences, there is no actual existence of the past and the future. All that there is, is the present."
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"I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured."

"The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem."

"If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past."

"The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president."

"We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation."

"Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."
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