"I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court."

Time, People, Basketball, Being

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"I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court."

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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Time, Life, Haste, Housekeeping

"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Time, Eternity

"The value of time is immeasurable."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Time, Immeasurable, Worth, Life

"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Time, Moment, World, Stillness

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go."

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"I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz."

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"Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals."

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"Your mind is what makes everything else work."

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"Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak."

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"Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody."

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"I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice."

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"Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary."

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