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• I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful, than a lifetime of nothing special.

  Robert Harling

  Love, Friendship, Special

  Robert Harling (1988). “Steel Magnolias”, p.35, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways...

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Life, Time, Dying

  "A Child Is Born". Poetic Christmas drama in one act by Stephen Vincent Benet (first presented on radio as part of the anthology program "Cavalcade of America"), December 21, 1942.

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• The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.

  Wilson Mizner

  Time, Sleep, Insomnia

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• Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Time, Three

  William Shakespeare (1784). “Stockdale's edition of Shakespeare, with explanatory notes”, p.56

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• I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyor belt... They made their way through the machine... A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water.

  Bill Gates

  Drinking, Glasses, Water

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• But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Time, Two Nations

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.9

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• Seize this very minute. What you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Begin it and the work will be completed

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dream, Can Do

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Anster, Harry Clarke (2013). “Faust”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all.

  Charles Lamb

  Years, Heaven, Spheres

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• The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

  Joe Paterno

  Thinking, Challenges, Disaster

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• The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

  Maureen Dowd

  Funny, Success, Motivational Sports

  "How to Be Happy: Why You Should Never Settle for 'Good Enough' in Your Life" by Kristen Houghton, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.

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• Time needs another minute.

  Sly Stone

  Needs

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• He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Forgiveness

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• Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.46, St. Martin's Press

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• The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Happiness, Smile

  The Friend (1828)

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• Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

  William Shakespeare

  Wave, Ends, Shore

  Sonnet 60

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• Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

  Horace Mann

  Life, Time, Sunset

  'Lost, Two Golden Hours'

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• Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Order, Feelings

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• The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.

  Francesca Annis

  Inspiration, Health, Sleep

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• Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

  Jean Anouilh

  Magic, Mind, Genius

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• When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Childhood, Presidential

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• Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!

  Dirk Benedict

  Television, Time Is Money, Time And Money

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• Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

  Erma Bombeck

  Thanksgiving, Sports, Football

  "On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes". Book by Paula Munier, p. 67, September 1, 2004.

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• I hate last-minute shopping, it's always unsuccessful.

  Cat Deeley

  Hate, Shopping, Lasts

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• Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

  Salvador Dali

  Tattoo, Art, Personality

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