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"If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything." »Confucius
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"What's done can't be undone." »William Shakespeare
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"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." »Pablo Picasso
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"Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone." »Pyrrhus
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"A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone." »Lady Reading
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"What power has love but forgiveness In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise" »William Carlos Williams
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"So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked." »Mark Twain
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"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." »Harriet
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"All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. ... It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone." »Richard von Weizscker
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"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone…The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials." »Lin Yutang, O Magazine, October 2002
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"By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom." »Omar Khayyam
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"But this is the second work of the law when it hath by its convictions brought the sinner into a condition of a sense of guilt which he cannot avoid, -- nor will anything tender him relief, which way so ever he lose, for he is in a desert, -- it represents unto him the holiness and severity of God, with his indignation and wrath against sin which have a resemblance of a consuming fire. This fills his heart with dread and terror and makes him see his miserable, undone condition." »John Owen
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"Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it." »Tao te Ching, 48. Lao-Tzu
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"Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it." »Lao-Tzu, Tao te Ching
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"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run." »Sydney Harris
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