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• I take no pleasure in seeing DeLay swing gently in the wind. But the thing I believe in the most is ethics. If someone has lost his moral compass and has to go to jail to find it, then I believe it will make him a much better person.

  Tom DeLay

  Believe, Compassion, Wind

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• It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month I find myself in the same place as when I began it.

  Washington Allston

  Evil, Lazy, Laziness

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• Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire.

  Elinor Glyn

  Fire, Iron, Return

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• Professor Wilkes is best known as the builder and designer of the EDSAC, the first computer with an internally stored program. Built in 1949, the EDSAC used a mercury delay line memory. He is also known as the author, with Wheeler and Gill, of a volume on "Preparation of Programs for Electronic Digital Computers" in 1951, in which program libraries were effectively introduced.

  Maurice Wilkes

  Memories, Preparation, Library

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• A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.

  Horace Walpole

  Suffering, Tragedy, May

  Horace Walpole (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace Walpole (Illustrated)”, p.4955, Delphi Classics

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• I want to help communities put welfare recipients to work right now, without delay, repairing schools, making their neighborhoods clean and safe, making them shine again. There's lots of work to be done out there. Our cities can find ways to put people to work and bring dignity and strength back to these families.

  William J. Clinton

  School, Cities, People

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1413, Best Books on

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• Fantasy is an 'F' word that hopefully the five second delay won't do anything with.

  Peter Jackson

  Fantasy, Hopefully, Five

  "The 76th Annual Academy Awards". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Often when you ask for one thing you receive another, this is the mysterious thing about prayer, we address them to heaven with some private intention, but they choose their own path, sometimes they delay, allowing other prayers to overtake them, frequently they overlap and become hybrid prayers of dubious origin, which quarrel and argue among themselves.

  Jose Saramago

  Prayer, Mysterious Things, Heaven

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• Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay.

  Publilius Syrus

  Speed, Anxious, Seems

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• That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions.

  Publilius Syrus

  Merit, Protection, Intention

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• Grieving must be done in its own time. To deny the human reality that pain hurts only delays the process.

  Roger Delano Hinkins

  Hurt, Pain, Healing

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• The bad consequences of a government program usually don't show up immediately. And the delay may be long enough to hide the connection between the program and its results. So government never has to say it's sorry - never has to take responsibility for ht misery it causes. Instead it can blame everything on personal greed, profit-hungry corporations, and the 'private sector.' And the government's cure for the problems is to impose bigger programs, more regulation and higher taxes.

  Harry Browne

  Sorry, Responsibility, Government

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• I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Sorrow, Letters, Posts

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• For a few brief days the orchards are white with blossoms. They soon turn to fruit, or else float away, useless and wasted, upon the idle breeze. So will it be with present feelings. They must be deepened into decision, or be entirely dissipated by delay.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  White, Decision, Feelings

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 186), 1895.

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• Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.

  Seneca the Younger

  Favour, Flight, Fortune

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• Former U.S. House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, has been sentenced to three years in prison. One year for money laundering and two more for his performance on 'Dancing with the Stars.'

  Jay Leno

  Stars, Majority Leader, Years

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• Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.

  Austin O'Malley

  Waiting, Bitter, Increase

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• Delay and indecision are first weapons in the armory of moviemakers.

  Shirley Temple

  Movie, Hollywood, Weapons

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• If there is a way to delay an important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Decision, Important, Way

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• We are so quick to tweet, Facebook, and Instagram but we treat prayer with a sense of delay?

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Instagram, Tweet

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• Situations in life often permit no delay; and when we cannot determine the course which is certainly best, we must follow the one which is probably the best. This frame of mind freed me also from the repentance and remorse commonly felt by those vacillating individuals who are always seeking as worthwhile things which they later judge to be bad.

  Rene Descartes

  Situations In Life, Worthwhile Things, Judging

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• The measured blood beats out the year's delay.

  Louise Bogan

  Autumn, Blood, Years

  Louise Bogan (1941). “Poems and new poems”

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• I'm not afraid to delay the schedule to make sure that this is the film that I want, that this is the best that I can do at that point.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Schedules, Want, Film

  "Exclusive Interview: Wong Kar Wai". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 10, 2008.

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• In many offices it could take several days to find a paper chart and some we'll never find. Ten percent of the paper records are never found. So you have this huge delay in time.

  William Davis

  Office, Records, Paper

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• The foot that is familiar with the grass belongs usually to a man of lighter heart than he whose soles seldom wander from the pavement; and the best elixir vitæ is a run, as often as we can contrive it, amid the sweets of new and lovely scenery, where nature sits, fresh from the hand of the Creator, almost chiding us for our delay.

  Leopold Hartley Grindon

  Running, Sweet, Heart

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