Quote by Victor Hugo
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste o

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. – Victor Hugo

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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

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Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose. – Mike Schmidt

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Nothing else in the world… not all the armies… is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

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Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away. – Ismail Haniyeh

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