You will never find time for anything. If you want time, then you must make it.

—Charles Buxton

About Charles Buxton

Charles Buxton (18 November 1822 – 10 August 1871) was an English brewer, philanthropist, writer and member of Parliament.

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To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.

—Charles Buxton

You live on from year's end to year's end, surrounded by those whom you love, and chatting together; but it is rare to be thrown alone with any one individual and have [a] really intimate talk with him or her.… Unless some effort is made for it, or unless circumstances are unusually favorable, the very members of the same family live, one might say, on parallel lines, without ever touching.

—Charles Buxton

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If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will.

—Greg McKeown

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It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer most from the consequences of them.

—Philippa Carr

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Our noses too, and our eyes and ears, are political instruments, protesters. An aesthetic response is a political action.… We know instinctively, aesthetically, when a fish stinks, when the sense of beauty is offended. Standing for these moments—and these moments occur each day, within every airless office building, seated in each crippling chair, inundated by senseless noise and fattened on industrial food—standing for our responses, these aesthetic reverberations of truth in the soul, may be the primary civic act of the citizen, the origin of caution and of the precautionary principle itself, with its warnings to stop, look, and listen.

—James Hillman

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Don't let them tame you!

—Isadora Duncan

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I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.

—Abbie Hoffman

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