"You are the music while the music lasts."

Eliot, T. S. on music
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"A man is a god in ruins."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting."

Brown, John Mason on time   

"City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead."

Hoagland, Edward on time   

"So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on time
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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 in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on time
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"Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance."

Buscaglia, Leo on time
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"Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis."

The EMS Manager Newsletter on leadership
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"Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them."

Mccloy, John (Jay) on humility
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"The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do."

Ruskin, John on humility
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"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people."

Gandhi, Mahatma on leadership
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"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

Drucker, Peter F. on leadership
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"You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on leadership
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"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on friends and friendship
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"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love."

Peguy, Charles on love
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"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth."

Darwin, Charles R. on friends and friendship
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"Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses."

Baker, Russell (Wayne) on happiness
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"Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics."

Heinlein, Robert on happiness
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"We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself."

Baughan, R.J. on happiness
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"To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history."

Fadiman, Clifton on wine
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"Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life."

Conrad, Joseph on land   

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"I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself."

Conrad, Joseph on youth
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"We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves."

Becker, May L. on age and aging
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"The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so."

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand on heroes and heroism
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"To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!"

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand on reality   

"The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man."

Carson, Rachel on nature
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"People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent."

Dylan, Bob on regret
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"All of life is a foreign country."

Kerouac, Jack on life
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"O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?"

Shakespeare, William on insomnia
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"But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!""

Kerouac, Jack on passion
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"Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell."

Shakespeare, William on farewells
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"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."

Camus, Albert on action
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"That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means."

Camus, Albert on ambiguity
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"We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead."

Camus, Albert on life
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"To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything."

Camus, Albert on misers and misery   

"Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being."

Camus, Albert on rebellion   

"Life begins on the other side of despair."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on despair
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"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on freedom
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"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on life   

"If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on loneliness
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