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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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• 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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• Life is a race. If you delay starting, how can you have any hope of winning?

  Randall Wright

  Procrastination, Winning, Race

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• If he (The New York Taxi Driver) talked to me, he might lose his concentration, which would be very bad because the taxi has some kind of problem with the steering, probably dead pedestrians lodged in the mechanism, the result being that there is a delay of 8 to 10 seconds between the time the driver turns the wheel and the time the taxi actually changes direction, a handicap that the driver is compensating for by going 175 miles per hour, at which velocity we are able to remain airborne almost to the far rim of some of the smaller potholes.

  Dave Barry

  New York, Humorous, Would Be

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• Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds.

  George P. Shultz

  Law, Enforcement, May

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• The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.

  Bob Barr

  Hurt, Party, Tea

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• I believe we can prevent or delay most disease until the 9th or 10th decade. The goal is to prevent anything that can affect your quality of life prior to those years! By the time many of us get to the 9th or 10th decade, who knows where the new medical and science will take us? I am an optimist!

  David Agus

  Believe, Years, Goal

  "‘The End of Illness’ Author David Agus Answers Readers’ Questions" by Stephen J. Dubner, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2012.

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• Individual companies now have the voluntary responsibility of recalling their own products. While many companies have acted properly and swiftly to recall contaminated goods, the delay between the identification of tainted foods and the company's decision to recall those foods leads to the needless sickness of too many Americans.

  Diana DeGette

  Responsibility, Decision, Sickness

  "What’s Needed to Protect Our Nation’s Food Supply" by Rep. Diana DeGette, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2009.

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• Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I'm just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can.

  Shawn Ryan

  Fall, Successful, Long

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• There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop.

  Antonis Samaras

  Kids, Years, Waste

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• One more time? We've done this. We've done this at least four times where there's a new government program to help homeowners who have trouble with their mortgages. None of these programs have worked. I don't know why anyone would think that this next idea is going to work. All it does is delay the clearing of the market. As soon as the market clears and we understand where the prices really are - that will be the most important thing we can do in order to improve home values around the country.

  John Boehner

  Country, Home, Thinking

  "John Boehner: Time For Government To Stop Helping Homeowners" by Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2012.

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• Delayed gratification is the one thing we ignore these days. And if you delay it, it becomes more pleasurable later in life.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Later In Life, These Days, Gratification

  Source: nation.foxnews.com

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• People are reticent to give a newborn the hepatitis B vaccine and often delay it.

  Paul A. Offit

  Vaccines, People, Giving

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• In Washington, 'delay' is too often code for 'derail.' Wink, wink.

  Peter Welch

  Code

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• Why should I ever resist any delay or disapointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation - when I know God will use it in my life to make me like Jesus and to prepare me for heaven?

  Kay Arthur

  Jesus, Heaven, Use

  Kay Arthur (2009). “As Silver Refined: Learning to Embrace Life's Disappointments”, p.89, WaterBrook

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• I take no pleasure in seeing DeLay swing gently in the wind. But the thing I believe in the most is ethics. If someone has lost his moral compass and has to go to jail to find it, then I believe it will make him a much better person.

  Tom DeLay

  Believe, Compassion, Wind

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• The best remedy for anger is delay.

  Brigham Young

  Anger, Remedy, Angry

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• A mind can be overthrown by words; that's the point. What is happening to the brain of a person who uses the passive, who writes, 'Delay should not be allowed to take place' instead of 'Hurry'? The user of the passive verb doesn't want a universe in which responsible agents do their acts. You see? Bad language ultimately is IMMORAL.

  Richard Mitchell

  Writing, Brain, Mind

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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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• Fantasy is an 'F' word that hopefully the five second delay won't do anything with.

  Peter Jackson

  Fantasy, Hopefully, Five

  "The 76th Annual Academy Awards". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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