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Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.


Dion Boucicault

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PAULO COELHO It just kills us that there's no time.
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VERA NAZARIAN It is not you who kills time, but it is time who kills you.
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ELIE WIESEL Killing time murders opportunities.
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CHIEF JOSEPH All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
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FORREST KLINE What you do to kill time is your real work.
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If you never get off the ground?
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SEMISONIC, CLOSING TIME .......Love is such a biological feeling, which kills,
without killing you biologically.
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ANTHONY LICCIONE It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.
NORTON JUSTER (PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH) It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.
NORTON JUSTER Time is the best teacher; unfortunately it kills all its students!
UNKNOWN A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.
JERRY SEINFELD Seems nothing draws men together like killing other men
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OBIE TRICE Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My son used to talk about young black men going to prison all the time in his music,
AFENI SHAKUR They appreciate the fact that someone's taking time to talk to them.
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LEMONY SNICKET A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name
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ERNEST WAMBA Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
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LOUIS-HECTOR BERLIOZ Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
HECTOR BERLIOZ Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.
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TERRY PRATCHETT i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.
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ERICH FROMM The man who kills a man kills a man.
The man who kills himself kills all men.
As far as he...
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DARNELL LAMONT WALKER Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
GIACOMO CASANOVA The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
EDGAR ALLAN POE I could sit and talk to them for three hours if I have the time,
MICHAEL MCKINNEY All these candidates talk about children. George W. Bush has pictures with minority kids all the tim...
RALPH NADER At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love,...
LUKE FORD They say that time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
MARK LAWRENCE Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz
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GEORGE D. PRENTICE Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
GEORGE DENNISON PRENTICE Your lack of commitment to being different is what kills you. It is the insanity of doing the same t...
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HELEN KELLER If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then bot...
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EDWIN P. WHIPPLE You know men, we always eat. And we spend time in fellowship, and we pray as a group for the city, f...
BILL RITCHIE The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy wh...
FRANK YERBY You look around and most faces are men - it's definitely noticeable. It's not something you think ab...
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ROB SPERRY I talk to the universe all the time.
TED LANGE As always we could talk... over and over... here I am locked in time, so far I have plenty of it.
DEYTH BANGER Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.
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