"Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful."

-- Charles Simmons

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“Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.”
“I'm just an actor, but if the extra part of it is that I'm helping people or people are being helped by the virtue of what we're doing, then that's just a really nice added extra.”
“No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above one's head like a bridgespan, and below it flows the water, carries the boat, takes it further.”
“Infinite patience gets you immediate results.”
“Hey Nana, do you remember the first time we met? I beleive in things like fate. So I think it was fate.”
“For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.”
“(on grief) And you do come out of it, thatâ€™s true. After a year, after five. But you donâ€™t come out of it like a train coming out of a tunnel, bursting through the downs into sunshine and that swift, rattling descent to the Channel; you come out of it as a gull comes out of an oil-slick. You are tarred and feathered for life.”
“Power to the people' can only be put into practice when the power exercised by social elites is dissolved into the people. Each individual can then take control of his daily life. If 'Power to the people' means nothing more than power to the 'leaders' of the people, then the people remain an undifferentiated, manipulatable mass, as powerless after the revolution as they were before. In the last analysis, the people can never have power until they disappear as a 'people.”

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