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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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To save time is to lengthen life.

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You love what you find time to do.

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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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When tolerance is not afforded to those so well-deserved, it speaks ill of the one who feels he cannot afford to give it.

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O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small.

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Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic and more time to drive to the office.

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If it's tourist season, why can't we kill them?

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Old men and far travelers may lie with authority.

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The alternative to a vacation is to stay home and tip every third person you see.

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The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall.

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Those that say you can't take it with you never saw a car packed for a vacation trip.

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Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement -- discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

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Some people develop eye strain looking for trouble

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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There is merit in the attempt, and a whole lot accomplished along the way.

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The best angle from which to approach a problem is the Try-angle.

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As a result of trying to solve the big problems we face in life, many of us end up sacrificing individual relationships by doing things that we may consider as being small or insignificant at the time. This reminds us of the George and Gracie routine where George asks Gracie, How do you cook a pot roast? She replied, I put both a big pot roast and a small pot roast in the oven. When the small one is burnt, the big one is done just right!

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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

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The early twenties when we drank wood alcohol and every day in every way grew better and better, and there was a first abortive shortening of the skirts, and girls all looked alike in sweater dresses, and people you didn't want to know said Yes, we have no bananas, and it seemed only a question of a few years before the older people would step aside and let the world be run by those who saw things as they were -- and it all seems rosy and romantic to us who were young then, because we will never feel quite so intensely about our surroundings any more.

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Many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.

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The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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A period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.

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The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation.

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The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

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People should know what you stand for. They should also know what you won't stand for.

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Victory is a political fiction.

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The victor belongs to the spoils.

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Non violence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.

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Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets the appetite, temperance curbs it.

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Its marvelous what you can see when you open your eyes.

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Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

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To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.

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The man with vision always goes ahead of the man with visions.

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The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

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Three levels of organizational vision: 1. The Do-able 2. The Conceivable 3. The Previously Unthinkable.

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Dwell in though upon the Grandest, And the Grandest you shall see; Fix your mind upon the Highest, And the Highest you shall be.

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When it comes to spotting a blonde hair on a man's coat, every wife has 20-20 vision.

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Better to aim at a star than shoot down a well; you'll hit higher.

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Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. Vitality never takes. You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.

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Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.

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Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.

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Don't worry if your job is small and your rewards few. Remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you.

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No matter whom you vote for, the Government always gets in.

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In times of stress and strain, people will vote.

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When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance.

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Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy.

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Try to eliminate the word SHOULD from your vocabulary. And try doing so without replacing it with OUGHT or YOU BETTER.

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Getting anything changes it from being desirable to just being taken for granted.

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War -- what a waist of time. It's all about great achievements for the very few but hideous losses for the very many.

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The greatest wastes are unused talents and untried ideas.

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A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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How much money is enough?

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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

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Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.

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Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty.

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A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. What do you mean? responded her mother. Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another.

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I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance; a church filled with flowers and friends. I asked him what kind of wedding he wished for; he said one that would make me his wife.

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It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.

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One non-revolutionary weekend is infinitely more bloody than a month of permanent revolution.

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The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.

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Don't gag people with welfare, they'll never make an effort.

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Remember that the horse that finishes a neck ahead wins the race.

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The only way to be number one is to be number one.

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A quitter never wins, and a winner never quits

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A winner loses more often than losers.

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Nothing great is lightly won, nothing won is lost. Every good deed that's nobly done will always repay the cost.

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.

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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.

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The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.

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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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If wishes were horses then beggars would ride.

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