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• The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

  Walter Benjamin

  Writing, Ideas

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.526, Harvard University Press

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• Those clocks are sophisticated instruments that calculate time by measuring electrical charges called coulombs -- given the rapidity and volume of electrons that move through the measuring device the calibrator must adjust at certain points which was the delay you see -- the delay is just recalibrating for the clock moving too quickly during the 10 -- 10ths of a second before the delay -- this insures that the actual playing time during a period is exactly 20 minutes That is not an opinion -- that is science -- amazing devise quite frankly.

  Dean Lombardi

  Moving, Opinion, Sophisticated

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• All that I have said up to now has merely been words.
  When people come to see me, I have to say something.
  But it is best not to speak about these matters too much.
  Better to begin practice without delay.
  I am like a good friend inviting you to go somewhere.
  Do not hesitate, just get going. You won't regret it.

  Ajahn Chah

  Regret, Good Friend, Practice

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• God has set before you an open door which no man has a right or power to shut. If you should be shut out, it will be by your own unbelief, and not for want of a warrant to come. Enter, then, without delay or hesitation. None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.

  Archibald Alexander

  Opportunity, Men, Doors

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• The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Animal, Men, Waste

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1821). “Queen Mab, a philosophical poem, with notes. [reputed to have been given by the author to W. Francis. Wanting the title-leaf, dedication and part of the last leaf].”, p.173

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• Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Pride, Modesty

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.72

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• We should not bear it with bad grace if the answer to our prayer is long delayed. Rather, let us, because of this, show great patience and resignation. For He delays for this reason: that we may offer Him a fitting occasion of honoring us through His divine providence.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Long, Catholic

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• We invite all to serve the Savior and walk in His paths straightway. There is an urgency for all of us who have this knowledge of His divinity to act upon it without hesitation or delay. The time is now.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Time, Divinity, Path

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.

  Lucas Papademos

  Justice, Speed, Investment

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• The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid to its enforcement in bills of mortality. Each disease has in many instances been denoted by three or four terms, and each term has been applied to as many different diseases ; vague, inconvenient names have been employed, or complications have been registered, instead of primary diseases. The nomenclature is of as much importance in this depart- ment of inquiry as weights and measures in the physical sciences, and should be settled without delay.

  William Farr

  Names, Perfect, Attention

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• But why do you delay? Come, do what you will.

  Polycarp

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• The rosy hearth, the lamplight's narrow beam, The meditation that is rather dream, With looks that lose themselves in cherished looks; The hour of steaming tea and banished books; The sweetness of the evening at an end, The dear fatigue, and right to rest attained, And worshipped expectation of the night,— Oh, all these things, in unrelenting flight, My dream pursues through all the vain delays, Impatient of the weeks, mad at the days!

  Paul Verlaine

  Dream, Book, Night

  Paul Verlaine (1906). “Poems”

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• Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is the question of whether this would be a wise thing to do. Marginal costs of additional growth in rich countries, such as global warming, biodiversity loss and roadways choked with cars, now likely exceed marginal benefits of a little extra consumption. The end result is that promoting further economic growth makes us poorer, not richer.

  Herman E. Daly

  Wise, Country, Real

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• Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.

  Aesop

  Blame, Sometimes, Active

  Aesop (2000). “Aesop's fables”

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• I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.

  Walter Benjamin

  Stars, World, Detours

  Walter Benjamin (2009). “One-Way Street and Other Writings”, p.8, Penguin UK

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• i wish i could freeze this moment, somehow delay my final decision, and just hang here in the balance between two places, two worlds, two loves.

  Emily Giffin

  Two, Decision, Balance

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.330, Macmillan

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• Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see them--from the moment when they will be read by other people, a moment which I feel will never come. By then I could have had an accident or died; a war or a revolution could have broken out. This delay makes it possible for me to write today, in the same way I used to lie in the scorching sun for a whole day at sixteen, or make love wihout contraceptives at twenty: without thinking about the consequences

  Annie Ernaux

  War, Lying, Writing

  Annie Ernaux (2011). “Simple Passion”, p.29, Seven Stories Press

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• Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.

  Caryll Houselander

  Powerful, Camouflage, Ends

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• In the current setting the situation of the poor is neglected despite the grotesque wealth of the capitalist elites, and the dangers to the well-being of humanity associated with climate change are ignored despite a strong scientific consensus warning of the adverse, and possibly irreversible, consequences of further delays in reducing the level of greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon.

  Richard A. Falk

  Strong, Humanity, Warning

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Delay not to seize the hour!

  Aeschylus

  Procrastination, Hours

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• God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.

  Anselm of Canterbury

  Prayer, Giving, Mind

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• One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff that life is made of. You may delay, but time will not.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Love Life, Two

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• The best cure for anger is delay.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wisdom, Cures

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• An incompetent lawyer can delay a trial for months or years. A competent lawyer can delay one even longer.

  Evelle J. Younger

  Years, Law, Trials

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My interest in chemistry was started by reading Robert Kennedy Duncan's popular books while a high school student in Des Moines, Iowa, so that after some delay when it was possible for me to go to college I had definitely decided to specialize in chemistry.

  Wallace Carothers

  Book, Reading, School

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