To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.
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To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.
The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
I just have this absolute belief that humans are moving away from cruelty and destruction towards a time when we can truly live in harmony with nature. When we understand that there is a spiritual power around us from which we can draw strength. That is where I believe human destiny ultimately is taking us. I just hope we have time.
Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.
Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself
At Christmas I no more desire a rose _x000D_ _x000D_ Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth;_x000D_ _x000D_ But like of each thing that in season grows.
Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.
Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.
In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.
Time's glory is to command contending kings,_x000D_ _x000D_ To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.
Remember, George, this is no time to go wobbly.
Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.
It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.
In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.
In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.
For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
The greatest voice of all time.
Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time.
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