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Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds t

Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side. – The Talmud

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Why was man created on the last day? So that he can be told, when pride possesses him: God created the gnat before thee. – The Talmud

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