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• In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Years, Ideas

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.502, Delphi Classics

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• We usually spend one hour per week on ballet but Marta Karolyi has us do a lot of compulsory floor in the morning practice.

  Kristie Phillips

  Morning, Gymnastics, Practice

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• I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know, I held opportunity.

  Hazel Ying Lee

  Stars, Flower, Carpe Diem

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• One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the fate of the country.

  Alexander Suvorov

  Country, Military, War

  "Encyclopedia of Russian History" by James R. Millar, Soviet Union, (p. 1504), 2004.

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• If you read one hour per day in your field, that will translate into about one book per week. One book per week translates into about 50 books per year. 50 books per year will translate into about 500 books over the next ten years.

  Brian Tracy

  Life, Motivational, Book

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• Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.

  Andy Grove

  Technology, Law, Lines

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• I feel it is far better to begin with God, to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another. In general it is best to have at least one hour alone with God before engaging in anything else.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  God, Christian, Religious

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”

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• In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport.

  Neil H. McElroy

  Travel, Men, Airports

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• If we had to play Augusta National in one hour, the best athlete would win the Masters. But as it is, they give us time to hang ourselves. Every swing is a 'thought shot'. So instead of the best athlete, you end up with the best thinker as the winner.

  Joe Inman

  Athlete, Golf, Winning

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• My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when we were 10 or 11 and performed it at the library. We just played off each other so well and had the best time doing it and the funniest part was, we wound up having packed houses, other people loved it too.

  Katherine Moennig

  Funny, Friendship, Growing Up

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• Would a soul continually eye His everlasting tenderness and compassion...[then] it could not bear an hour's absence from Him; whereas now, perhaps, it cannot watch with him one hour.

  John Owen

  Eye, Compassion, Soul

  John Owen (2001). “Communion with God”, p.32, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

  William James

  Life, Faith, Optimism

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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• A one-hour work-week...would minimize the damage that Congress can do.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Political, Damage, Week

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• Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and reciting prayers. Each act must be carried out in mindfulness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Prayer, Reading, Meditation

  Thich Nhat Hanh (1996). “The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation”, p.24, Beacon Press

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• One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

  Walter Scott

  Mean, Men, Years

  Sir Walter Scott (189?). “the bride of Lammermoor”

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• It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint.

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Art, Years, Hours

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• Now I'm starting, relatively, to think straight again. I live one day at a time, one hour at a time. What makes it all worthwhile is my children.

  Paula Yates

  Time, Children, Thinking

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• I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.

  Jonathan Davis

  Night, World, Stuff

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• The fact is that daytime television is less valued than nighttime, and its partly because of the product that we produce. We do a one-hour show in 12 hours. Nighttime produces a one-hour show in seven to nine days.

  Deidre Hall

  Television, Nine, Facts

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• Live Aid did feel like one hour's rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.

  Jimmy Page

  Years, Rehearsal, Wonderful

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• If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it - the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Humble, Hands, Effort

  Ann Radcliffe (2015). “The Mysteries of Udolpho: Horror and Romance”, p.665, 谷月社

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• Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.

  Rose Macaulay

  Time, Morning, Book

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• After an earthquake in Los Angeles - The earth in LA moved more in one hour than Benoit Benjamin did all last season with the Clippers.

  Peter Vecsey

  Basketball, Earthquakes, Lasts

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• What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment ... inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Compassion, Rose

  Letter to Jean Nicholas Demeunier, 24 Jan. 1786

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• Within the mystery of life there is the infinite darkness of the night sky lit by distant orbs of fire, the cobbled skin of an orange that releases its fragrance to our touch, the unfathomable depths of the eyes of our lover. No creation story, no religious system can fully describe or explain this richness and depth. Mystery is so every-present that no one can know for certain what will happen one hour from now. “ It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.

  Jack Kornfield

  Religious, Believe, Eye

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