"The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future."

Time, Defeat, Future, Ignorance

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"The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future."

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"It was always me and the other guy. I came in second for a long time."

Joel Gretsch, American Actor

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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

Evita Peron, Argentinian Statesman

Time, Right

"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains."

Julian Barbour, British Scientist

Time, Illusion

"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Time, Mind, Perception, Experience

"Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work."

Karl Kraus, Austrian Writer

Time, Work, People, Democracy

"Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence."

Khaled Hosseini, Afghan Novelist

Time, Presence, Love, Absence

"Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet."

Chris Brown, American Musician

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"Time is running out to permeate the piece."

Tommy Tune, American Dancer

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"Time is the fairest and toughest judge."

Edgar Quinet, French Historian

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"A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind."

History

"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones."

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"Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older."

Love

"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."

Man

"It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil."

Creativity

"The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future."

Money

"The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy."

Power

"For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still."

God

"Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead."

Society

"Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be."

Society