If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years.

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Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks.

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‎"Does all the beauty of the world stop when you die?" "No," said the Old Oak; "it will last much longer - longer than I can even think of." "Well, then," said the little May-fly, "we have the same time to live; only we reckon differently.

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Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal. It's a constant.

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Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.

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Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

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I try to take it one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. — Ashleigh Brilliant

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Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time. — Lou Holtz

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It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.

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If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

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