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.
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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.
Investing a lot of time and money in external beauty and caring little about internal beauty.
It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.
The facilities for advanced education must be evened out and multiplied. No one who can take advantage of a higher education should be denied this chance. You cannot conduct a modern community except with an adequate supply of persons upon whose education, whether humane, technical, or scientific, much time and money have been spent.
The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we try to keep up with because we sense that there's something going on that we need to tap into - are artifacts, or symptoms of living in this atemporal reality. And it's not any worse than living in the 'time is money' reality that we're leaving.
Imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause - and you wanted to spend that time and money where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives. Where would you spend it?
Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.
Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.
Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
We now know that something between 85 and 90 percent of most software product features are unwanted and unneeded by customers. That is an enourmous ammount of waste of time and money that ends up on the floor.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
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