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"Most of us think ourselves as standing wearily and helplessly at the center of a circle bristling with tasks, burdens, problems, annoyance, and responsibilities which are rushing in upon us. At every moment we have a dozen different things to do, a dozen problems to solve, a dozen strains to endure. We see ourselves as overdriven, overburdened, overtired. This is a common mental picture and it is totally false. No one of us, however crowded his life, has such an existence. What is the true picture of your life? Imagine that there is an hour glass on your desk. Connecting the bowl at the top with the bowl at the bottom is a tube so thin that only one grain of sand can pass through it at a time. That is the true picture of your life, even on a super busy day, The crowded hours come to you always one moment at a time. That is the only way they can come. The day may bring many tasks, many problems, strains, but invariably they come in single file. You want to gain emotional poise? Remember the hourglass, the grains of sand dropping one by one." »James Gordon Gilkey
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"One boy is more trouble that a dozen girls." »English Proverb
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"I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now." »Lamar Alexander
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"If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing." »John le Carre
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"Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen." »Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen." »John Steinbeck
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"An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout." »Unknown
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"If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route." »Malcolm Forbes
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"One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat." »Woodrow Wilson
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"It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. two of them, say, disappear; about two, nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled." »Sir Winston Churchill
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"People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts." »Robert Keith Leavitt
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"A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other." »George Jean Nathan
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