Quote by Norman Douglas
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Why always “not yet”? Do flowers in spring say “not yet”? – Norman Douglas

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How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of ones senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. – Norman Douglas

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Reality
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It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. – Norman Douglas

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Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust. – Henry S. Haskins

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Lost time is never found again. – Benjamin Franklin

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Carpe Diem

You may delay, but time will not. – Benjamin Franklin

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Never forget that you must die; that death will come sooner than you expect… God has written the letters of death upon your hands. In the inside of your hands you will see the letters M.M. It means “Memento Mori” — remember you must die. – J. Furniss, Tracts for Spiritual Reading

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Ones work usually occupies more than half of ones waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing. – Bo Bennett

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Everybodys got a different sense of humor. Its just different styles. – Colin Quinn

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The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. – Bertrand Russell

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He who hasnt hacked assemply language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain. – John Moore