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“We have everything we need, in fact, except the most important thing of all — time to think and the habit of thought.”

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Norman Cousins was an American journalist, author, and professor. He is renowned for his role as a journalist and his promotion of laughter as a therapeutic method. Born on June 24, 1915, Cousins passed away on November 30, 1990. more

“It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions.”

Mind Mean Spirit Time Pleasure Fit Mark Dinner Remembered Meals Dishes Vulgar Spit Ignoble

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been encouraged to learn methods of thought and develop a disciplined mind. As long as education remains largely induction ignorance will retain these advantages over learning and it is time that women impudently put them to work.”

Mind Children Long Might Time Ignorance Advantage Claims Method Remains Faculty

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.”

Men Two Sometimes Character Together Certain Time Mistake Contact Evident Resemblance

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.”

Ifs May Long Lasts Law Time House Cities Half Streets Fields Wind Grew Grew Up Long Time Green Track Strikes Lawyer Lanes Serpent Capricious Devious

Book:The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays

Source: The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays

“With thee conversing I forget all time.”

Time Forget All Time Thee Paradise Lost Book 9 Paradise Lost Book 2

Author:John Milton

“When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.”

Time Behinds Originality Funny Basketball

Author:Jean Cocteau

“The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.”

Persons Time Strong Anger

Author:John Ruskin

“We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.”

Time Dies Bits Time Management

Author:Octavio Paz

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