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"We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance." »Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." »Albert Einstein
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"Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise." »Lord Chesterfield
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"It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights." »Elizabeth Bowen
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"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy." »Henry Havelock Ellis
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"To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood." »George Santayana
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"It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle." »Matthew Arnold
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"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity." »Albert Einstein
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"Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like a wide-angle lens." »Edward de Bono, Textbook of Wisdom
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"The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science." »Albert Einstein
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"Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still" »J. Paul Getty
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"Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going." »Laurence J. Peter
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"Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to the world. When the world shifts, you shift." »Tom Stoppard
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"Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose sides and angle were all equal. He discovered these things for himself and then began to seek the relationship which existed between them. He did not know any mathematical terms and so he made up his own. Using these names he made axioms and finally developed perfect demonstrations, until he had come to the thirty-second proposition of Euclid." »C. M. Cox
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"It is the darkest hour before dawn." »Unknown
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"The darkest hour has only 60 minutes." »Morris Mandel
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"Learn that the present hour alone is man's." »Samuel Johnson
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"Think to yourself that every day is your last the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise." »Horace
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"To fill the hour-that is happiness." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise." »Horace, Epistles
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"How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!" »Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify
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"What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always." »Albert Schweitzer
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"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now--always." »Albert Schweitzer
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"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place." »Ben Azai, Mishna
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"Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day." »William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 3
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"Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place." »Ben Azai
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"Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour." »Edward M. Kennedy
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