"A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time."

Time, First, Old

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"A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time."

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

Evita Peron, Argentinian Statesman

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"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 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

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"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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"We have not the time to take our time."

Eugene Ionesco, French Dramatist

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"No money can buy back the moment that is gone"

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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"Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

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"If ever there was a time for true bipartisanship, it is today."

Brad Henry, American Politician

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"Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."

Jim Rohn, American Businessman

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"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."

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"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."

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"If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end."

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"Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God."

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"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"

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"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."

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"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living."

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"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."

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"You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty."

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"After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it."

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