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• Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.

  Andy Grove

  Winning, Technology, Flow

  "Andy Grove coins his own law" by Michael Kanellos, www.cnet.com. May 18, 2005.

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• If people want consultative government, the price is increased complexity and delay in arriving at decisions. If they want speed of government, then they must accept a greater degree of authoritarianism. I suspect that the real answer is that most people prefer the latter so long, that is, as government's decisions conform with their own views.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Real, Government, Views

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 215), March 27, 1968.

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• Tomorrow is our final show. That is unless it rains, and then there will be a rain delay. We'll probably make it up in a doubleheader around Labor Day.

  David Letterman

  Rain, Labor Day, Finals

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• Pretending you are not in love with someone only delays the time of you getting over them.

  Jasmine V

  Pretending

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• Aquatic animals suffer from the disadvantage that they cannot scream when in pain, so we find it hard to gauge the degree of their agony. If fish could scream, angling purely for sport would be outlawed without delay.

  Desmond Morris

  Sports, Pain, Animal

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• The reason for the delay to the kick-off is because it's not yet kick-off time

  Jimmy Magee

  Football, Reason, Kicks

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• The meaning of words had no longer the same relation to things... Reckless daring was held to be loyal courage; prudent delay was the excuse of a coward; moderation was the disguise of unmanly weakness; to know everything was to do nothing. Frantic energy was the true quality of man.

  Thucydides

  Wisdom, Men, Coward

  Thucydides (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thucydides (Illustrated)”, p.199, Delphi Classics

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• The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

  Winston Churchill

  Children, Men, Law

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.50, Da Capo Press

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• It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Fate, Destiny, Past

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Catherine. Little travels The Fitz-Boodle papers, etc. etc”, p.89

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• These wickets of the soul are plac'd so high,
  Because all sounds do highly move aloft;
  And that they may not pierce too violently,
  They are delay'd with turns and twinings oft.
  For should the voice directly strike the brain,
  It would astonish and confuse it much;
  Therefore these plaits and folds the sound restrain.
  That it the organ may more gently touch.

  Sir John Davies

  Moving, Voice, Soul

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• We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Mistake, Victory

  A House Divided, delivered 16 June 1858, Springfield, Illinois

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• There is as much in our Lord's pantry as will satisfy all his children and as much wine in his cellar as will quench all their thirst. Hunger on, for there is meat in hungering for Christ; go never from him, but seek him who is yet pleased with the importunity of hungry souls until he fills you; if he delays, yet do not go away, even if you faint at his feet.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Children, Wine, Feet

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• I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with.

  James Surowiecki

  Writing, Pieces, Research

  "Ask the Author Live: James Surowiecki on Procrastination". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2010.

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• Approach the enemy with the attitude of defeating him without delay.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Attitude, Enemy, Approach

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• No one should be forced to delay health care because politicians have the audacity to presume to know what is best for a woman and her family.

  Nancy Northup

  Health, Audacity, Care

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• We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.

  Richard Schiff

  Dream, Sleep, Too Late

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Short-cuts lead to long delays.

  Mike Rowe

  Cutting, Long, Short Cuts

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• Patience is the ability to accept trouble, suffering, delay without getting angry or upset, I feel like if you can master patience you can master anything.

  Big Sean

  Upset, Suffering, Trouble

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• Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time...turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation.

  David Toop

  Ocean, Echoes, Order

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• A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.

  Horace Walpole

  Suffering, Tragedy, May

  Horace Walpole (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace Walpole (Illustrated)”, p.4955, Delphi Classics

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• Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire.

  Elinor Glyn

  Fire, Iron, Return

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• It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month I find myself in the same place as when I began it.

  Washington Allston

  Evil, Lazy, Laziness

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• Professor Wilkes is best known as the builder and designer of the EDSAC, the first computer with an internally stored program. Built in 1949, the EDSAC used a mercury delay line memory. He is also known as the author, with Wheeler and Gill, of a volume on "Preparation of Programs for Electronic Digital Computers" in 1951, in which program libraries were effectively introduced.

  Maurice Wilkes

  Memories, Preparation, Library

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• I want to help communities put welfare recipients to work right now, without delay, repairing schools, making their neighborhoods clean and safe, making them shine again. There's lots of work to be done out there. Our cities can find ways to put people to work and bring dignity and strength back to these families.

  William J. Clinton

  School, Cities, People

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1413, Best Books on

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• Often when you ask for one thing you receive another, this is the mysterious thing about prayer, we address them to heaven with some private intention, but they choose their own path, sometimes they delay, allowing other prayers to overtake them, frequently they overlap and become hybrid prayers of dubious origin, which quarrel and argue among themselves.

  Jose Saramago

  Prayer, Mysterious Things, Heaven

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