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• O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies not plenty; Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Sweet, Laughter

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [42]

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• The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

  Seneca the Younger

  Letting Go, Time, Future

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• He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.

  Graham Greene

  Taken, Hands, Ideas

  'The Heart of the Matter' (1948) bk. 1, pt. 1, ch. 1

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• If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and go for a walk. I hated the thought of coming to the end of a good book. I would tease it along, delay the inevitable as long as possible, But always, when I hit a great passage, I would stop reading immediately. Out I would go, rain, hail, snow or ice, and chew the cud.

  Henry Miller

  Book, Reading, Rain

  Henry Miller (2012). “Plexus (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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• I would never jump under a subway car because that would delay all the people behind me. How inconsiderate!

  Signe Baumane

  People, Car, Subway

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork.

  Bill Gates

  Missing, Lost, Checks

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• I would urge you to give priority to the search for God. Allow his spirit to permeate your being. ... If you do not have a deep and patient faith in God, you will be powerless to face the delays, disappointments, and vicissitudes that inevitably come.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Disappointment, Giving, Priorities

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not distort, delay, or sequester information

  Donella Meadows

  Information, Commandments

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• If you're in the U.S. and talk to someone on the phone who's in Iraq, you'll experience sound delay. It isn't long, but the sound has to go to a satellite and back, it's used for everything. I'm proud to have that be something I invented.

  Les Paul

  Iraq, Phones, Long

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• At Planned Parenthood, we see the impact of abortion stigma firsthand, in the women who delay getting reproductive health care because they fear they’ll be labeled and judged. We see the effect of stigma on doctors, health center staffers, and others who help provide abortion services. And we see the impact in laws that regulate and restrict abortion in ways that would never happen with any other medical procedure.

  Cecile Richards

  Impact, Doctors, Law

  "Ending the Silence That Fuels Abortion Stigma" by Cecile Richards, www.elle.com. October 16, 2014.

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• It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Eye, Imperfect Things, Poetry

  "L'art romantique". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1869.

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• More than 60 percent of small businesses face payment delays. That can cause a serious cash flow crisis. So, as president, I will explore new ways to arm small businesses with the tools to fight back and level the playing field.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fighting, Cash Flow, President

  Source: time.com

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• You can delay but you can't deny.

  Tyron Woodley

  Mma, Deny

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• Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray if thou canst with hope; but ever pray Though hope be weak, or sick with long delay. Whatever is good to wish, ask that of heaven; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Teacher, Sick, Long

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• Don't delay. It's getting late.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Late

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• But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one to bid him go. When lips invite, And eyes delight, And cheeks as fresh as rose in June, Persuade delay,-- What boots to say Forego me now, come to me soon.

  Walter Raleigh

  Eye, June, Rose

  Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh”, p.721

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• Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken, And, contrary, the moment, when we say "'Twill never come!" comes on us even then.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Destiny, Hands, Unseen

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• It is well known that measles is an important development milestone in the life and maturing processes in children. Why would anybody want to stop or delay the maturation processes of children and of their immune systems?

  Viera Scheibner

  Children, Important, Development

  Viera Scheibner (1993). “Vaccination: 100 Years of Orthodox Research Shows that Vaccines Represent a Medical Assault on the Immune System”, Co-Creative Designs

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• Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. So use it and send one dollar to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay. Eternal happiness is just a dollar away.

  Homer

  Wish, Dollars, Eternal Happiness

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• Do it, delegate it, delay it, or dump it.

  Jack Canfield

  Dump, Delegates

  Jack Canfield, Kelly Johnson, Ram Ganglani (2017). “Success Affirmations: 52 Weeks for Living a Passionate and Purposeful Life”, p.119, Health Communications, Inc.

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• The longer incompetent people delay in doing what they`re doing, we`re always better off whenever incompetent people are delaying what they`re going to do.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  People, Incompetent, Better Off

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I had invented my own system, my own way of making electronic music at the San Francisco Tape Music Centre, and I was using what is now referred to as a classical electronic music studio, consisting of tube oscillators and patch bays. There were no mixers or synthesizers. So I managed to figure out how to make the oscillators sing. I used a tape delay system using two tape recorders and stringing the tape between the two tape machines and being able to configure the tracks coming back in different ways.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Two, San Francisco, Track

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• When we had the San Francisco Tape Music Center, we had a couple of Ampex tape machines there, and I could string tape from one machine, past the heads, and over to the next machine to the supply-reel amp, and have another delay there.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Couple, Past, San Francisco

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fit, Hours, Pleasure

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.87

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• For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.

  Petrarch

  Death, Comfort, Needs

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, p.306, Delphi Classics

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