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• If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will dominate the seventh rank, and pawns turn into queens.

  Irving Chernev

  Queens, Kings, Men

  Irving Chernev (2014). “The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 masterly games of chess strategy”, p.110, Pavilion Books

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• There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.

  Edmund Burke

  Disappointment, Design, Judgement

  "The Works of Edmund Burke in Nine Volumes", Vol. IX, Boston: Little, Brown, 1839.

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• The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.

  Camille Paglia

  Beautiful, Block, Equality

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• Why are you measuring? This is how you block, delay, hinder, obstruct and deny his place in the life as a father.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Father, Block, Parenting

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• Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Wind, Weather

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.70, Harvard University Press

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• True love hates and will not bear delay.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Hate, Bears

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• You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Knowledge, Height, Firsts

  Desiderius Erasmus (1974). “The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 1 to 141, 1484-1500”, p.114, University of Toronto Press

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• I'll go [racing] until my body won't let me any more. Someone said to me: "The day you stop, you won't be able to get back on the same way as when you did as a pro." I want to delay that kiss goodbye as long as possible.

  David Millar

  Goodbye, Kissing, Long

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• The universe likes SPEED. Don't delay, don't second-guess, don't doubt.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Doubt, Likes

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• Love's in need of love today...don't delay...send yours in right away

  Stevie Wonder

  Peace, Needs, Today

  Song: Love's In Need Of Love Today, Album: Natural Wonder, 1976

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• I used to think that when I set out that doing the research was enough! But then the gaps would emerge that could only be filled by the imagination. And imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

  Hilary Mantel

  Procrastination, Thinking, Imagination

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• Do not delay in coming to grace, but hasten, lest the robber outstrip you, lest the adulterer pass you by, lest the insatiate be satisfied before you, lest the murderer seize the blessing first, or the publican or the fornicator, or any of these violent ones who take the Kingdom of heaven by force (cf. Mt. 11:12). For it suffers violence willingly, and is tyrannized over through goodness.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Blessing, Cfs

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• ...Delay, says Dr. Manner, is a luxury which people with right-now cancers cannot afford.

  Paul Harvey

  Cancer, Dark, Luxury

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• The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

  Frank Herbert

  Self, Desire, Quality

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.253, Penguin

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• I think [the death penalty is] very expensive, and the delays are inordinate, delaying closure for the victims' families.

  Rob McKenna

  Thinking, Death Penalty, Law Enforcement

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• One belief that I've developed to carry me through extremely tough times is simply this: God's delays are not God's denials.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Tough Times, Denial

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• If I did not see that the Lord kept watch over the ship, I should long since have abandoned the helm. But I see Him! - through the storm, strengthening the tackling, handling the yards, spreading the sails - yes more, commanding the very winds! Should I not be a coward if I abandoned my post? Let Him govern, let Him carry us forward, let Him hasten or delay; we will fear nothing!

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Prayer, Wind

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• We expect Serbian authorities to bring to justice all individuals at all levels who are responsible for their deaths without further delay. This also remains a high priority on our bilateral agenda with Serbia.

  Victoria Nuland

  Justice, Priorities, Agendas

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• Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer-he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave on which to ride in. Delay is instinctive with him. He waits for the surge (of emotion? of strength? of courage?) that will carry him along.

  E. B. White

  Inspiring, Perfect, Waiting

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• So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.

  Graham Greene

  Life Is, Unhappiness, Lost

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• Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both.

  Martin Frost

  Independent, Fighter, Thinker

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• In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept is free from all the delays of its genetic evolution, an evolution which is consequently explained by simple psychology. The virility of knowledge increases with each conquest of the constructive abstraction.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Knowledge, Cutting, Exercise

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• God's timing is always perfect. Trust His delays. He's got you.

  Tony Evans

  Perfect, Timing

  FaceBook post by Tony Evans from Mar 01, 2015

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