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Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

—John Ruskin

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!

—John F. Kennedy

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

—John F. Kennedy

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

—Jim Bishop

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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

—Jef Mallett

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

—Elizabeth I

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

—Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

—Chuck Sigars

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

—Carl Sandburg

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

—Bonnie Friedman

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

—Baltasar Gracián

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The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

—Abraham Lincoln

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Secret thoughts and open countenance will go safely over the whole world.

—Unknown

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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

—Unknown

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If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

—Unknown

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