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• When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.

  George William Russell

  Running, Men, Rivals

  "The School as a Home for the Mind : Creating Mindful Curriculum, Instruction, and Dialogue" by Arthur L. Costa, (p. 91), 2007.

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• But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality has no such simple effect upon the mind of man.

  Virginia Woolf

  Animal, Simple, Men

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.140, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

  Billy Wilder

  Aunt, Pay, Punctuation

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• I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly at the same time, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality; I am also an abstainer and a nonsmoker, and these bottles in Haller's room pleased me even less than the rest of his artistic disorder.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Men, Class

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Funny, Time, Calendars

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• Laugh and the world laughs with you!

  Grant Morrison

  Laughter, Sleep, Insomnia

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• The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Guests, Said, Cooks

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Leonard Francis Simpson (1859). “The handbook of dining, based chiefly upon the Physiologie du goût of Brillat-Savarin”, p.7

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• The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

  Lin Yutang

  Achievement, Unhappy, Desire

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  "Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays Vol. 1 1852-1890".

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• I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Character, Men, Thinking

  Nathanael Emmons (1861). “The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D., Third Pastor of the Church in Franklin, Mass: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.340

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• He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, Principles, Thieves

  "The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories".

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• Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  "Lord Chesterfield's Advice to His Son, on Men and Manners: Or, A New System of Education". Book by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, 1815.

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• You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

  Horace Mann

  Inspirational, Time, May

  "Excellent Quotations for Home and School" by Julia B. Hoitt, (p. 74), 1890.

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• It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Running, Use

  "Forty Thousand Sublime and Beautiful Thoughts Gathered from the Roses, Clover Blossoms, Geraniums, Violets, Morning-glories, and Pansies of Literature". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, p. 928, 1915.

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• The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Stress, Taken, Light

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• Kaylin is not known for her punctuality. She is known, in fact, for her lack--even by those outside of the Hawklord's command.

  Michelle Sagara

  Facts, Command, Known

  Michelle Sagara (2016). “Cast in Shadow”, p.33, MIRA

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• Punctuality or the lack thereof oftentimes is the only introduction one will ever have to new groups and friends. Serenity and poise are not the companions of those who lack the courtesy and judgment to be on time.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Serenity, Groups, Judgment

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• Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sad, Laughter, Being Alone

  'Solitude'

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• For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.

  Christopher Columbus

  Writing, Journey, Purpose

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.11

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• So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we are not responsible, and about which we can do nothing; but when we begin to think of it subjectively, we feel responsible for our time, and the notion of punctuality arises.

  W. H. Auden

  Fate, Thinking, Long

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• When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Arriving, Noble

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.165

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• People, the common people, can genuinely see what I'm doing. Moreover, people know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence. These are the four principles I adopted at the very beginning and continue to use until now. People see this and give me donations.

  Abdul Sattar Edhi

  Hard Work, Simple, People

  Source: www.irinnews.org

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• People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence.

  Abdul Sattar Edhi

  Hard Work, Simple, People

  Source: www.irinnews.org

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• As for consulting a dentist regularly, my punctuality practically amounted to a fetish. Every twelve years I would drop whatever I was doing and allow wild Caucasian ponies to drag me to a reputable orthodontist.

  S. J. Perelman

  Years, Twelve, Ponies

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• Women really do want to be on time. It's just that everything starts so darn early.

  Sela Ward

  Want

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