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• Early on, girls begin to menstruate, which is dramatic but not obvious to their playmates. They grow taller and rounder, but underneath their makeup they are still recognizably themselves. For boys it is far more disorienting. Puberty comes later, sometimes much later, and its delay is humiliating. While the tall round girls are getting themselves up like grown women, the prepubertal boys, with their featureless, hairless bodies, are just dirty little kids who could pass for the children of the hypermature girls.

  Frank Pittman

  Girl, Children, Dirty

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• A recent study by David Green and Laura Casper, 'Delay, Denial and Dilution,' written for the London-based Institute of Economic Affairs, concludes that the World Health Organization calculated that Britain has as many as 25,000 unnecessary cancer deaths a year because of under-provision of care.

  Walter E. Williams

  Cancer, Years, Organization

  Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.272, Hoover Institution Press

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• The show with Buckley and Vidal was happening live. There was no editing. There was no delay. So they were aghast. How America reacted is sort of the most interesting thing because as these debates progressed, the ratings were going up. So people began to program these sort of point-counterpoint setups, where two people with opposite sides would come on.

  Morgan Neville

  Editing, Opposites, Two

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Governor Gray Davis has asked the California state Supreme Court to delay the October recall vote because he says that's not enough time to put on a fair election. Hey, let me tell you something. If we didn't need a fair election to pick the president of the United States, we don't need a fair election to pick the governor of California.

  Jay Leno

  California, President, October

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• Stop all delays, all seeking and all striving. Put down your concepts, ideas and beliefs. For one instant be still and directly encounter the silent unknown core of your being. In that instant Freedom will embrace you and reveal the Awakening that you are.

  Adyashanti

  Ideas, Encounters, Awakening

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• As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.

  Jessica Jackley

  Night, Focus, Entrepreneur

  "PREGNANT FOUNDER'S RESPONSE TO VC: "I've Never Heard Someone Say 'An Expectant Father/CEO Will Fail'" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. April 20, 2011.

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• [Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war.

  Edward Gibbon

  War, Fame, Hours

  Edward Gibbon (1871). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.580

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• No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable. ... Cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible: avoiding occasions of expence (and) avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt ... not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen which we ourselves ought to bear.

  George Washington

  Use, Credit, Redemption

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• The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.

  Samuel Johnson

  Opportunity, Giving, Vices

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.16

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• Every day our garments become more assimilated to ourselves, receiving the impress of the wearer's character, until we hesitate tolay them aside without such delay and medical appliances and some such solemnity even as our bodies.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Receiving, Body

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Path, Should, Shakes

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Two: The Path Is the Goal; Training the Mind; Glimpses of Abhidharma; Glimpses of Shu nyata; Glimpses of Mahayana; Selected Writings”, p.179, Shambhala Publications

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• I wanted to move away from the disaster airplane movies that we have seen in the past and do something that was more mysterious, and delay until the end the resolution of the mystery, and then have to deal with the plane itself.

  Jaume Collet-Serra

  Moving, Airplane, Past

  Source: collider.com

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• The information glut has become a ruling cliche. As all resources - from energy to information - become more abundant, the presure of economic scarcity falls ever more heavily on one key residual, and that single shortage looms ever more stringent and controlling. The governing scarcity of the information economy is time: the shards of a second, the hours in a day, the years in a life, the latency of memory, the delay in aluminum wires, the time to market, the time to metastasis, the time to retirement.

  George Gilder

  Retirement, Memories, Fall

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• The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a moment after the first glance to know what the picture is about. You don't so much see the image as let it dissolve into your consciousness, like a tablet in a glass of water.

  Teju Cole

  Glasses, Water, Firsts

  Teju Cole (2016). “Known and Strange Things”, p.104, Faber & Faber

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• I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Exit, Theater

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.15, Penguin

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• I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Waiting, Forever

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• The vestibule door opens onto a June morning so fine and scrubbed Classira pauses at the threshold as she would at the edge of a pool, watching the turquoise water lapping at the tiles, the liquid nets of sun wavering in the blue depths. As if standing at the edge of a pool she delays for a moment the plunge, the quick membrane of chill, the plain shock of immersion.

  Michael Cunningham

  Morning, June, Blue

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.9, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

  Kathleen Norris

  Goal, Vision, Impossible

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• Every time in my life when I have chosen to delay following inspired counsel or decided that I was an exception, I came to know that I had put myself in harm's way. Every time that I have listened to the counsel of prophets, felt it confirmed in prayer, and then followed it, I have found that I moved toward safety.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Prayer, Safety, Way

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• I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.

  Shimon Peres

  Believe, Israel, May

  Presidential Medal of Freedom Acceptance Address, delivered 13 June 2012, White House, Washington, D.C.

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• Baseball calls it a curve ball for a reason: you just don't know where some pitches will land. Your ace could get injured. Your golden glover could err. Your team could sit through a rain delay. Your manager could get ejected. Your bench must be broad and deep enough to overcome.

  Christine Pelosi

  Baseball, Team, Rain

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• The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity.

  Moby

  Crazy, Wings, Needs

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• If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.

  Temple Grandin

  Space, Autism, Yaks

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• While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency.

  Mitch McConnell

  Government, Levels, Indiana

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• Information on how to heal autism and how to possibly delay vaccines or prevent autism shouldn't come from me. It should come from the medical establishment.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Vaccines, Autism, Information

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