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Quote by Samuel Johnson
The greatest part of a writers time is spent in reading in order t

The greatest part of a writers time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. – Samuel Johnson

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Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. – Samuel Johnson

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Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty. – Samuel Johnson

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In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes so with present time. – Leonardo da Vinci

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I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV. – Bill Gates

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No matter what time it is, wake me, even if its in the middle of a Cabinet meeting. – Ronald Reagan

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We should not say that one mans hour is worth another mans hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most times carcass. – Karl Marx

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Beauty cant amuse you, but brainwork – reading, writing, thinking – can. – Helen Gurley Brown

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Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons. – Ralph Merkle

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Theres a difference between a failure and a fiasco… a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. – Orlando Bloom

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