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• Something went klunk. Like a nickel dropping in a soda machine. One of those small insights that explains everything. This was puberty for these boys. Adolescence. The first date, the first kiss, the first chance to hold hands with someone special. Delayed, postponed, a decade's worth of longing--while everybody around you celebrates life, you pretend, suppress, inhibit, deprive yourself of you own joy--but finally ultimately, eventually, you find a place where you can have a taste of everything denied.

  David Gerrold

  Kissing, Boys, Hands

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• Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

  Charlie Munger

  Investing, Delayed Gratification, Gratification

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• It takes patience to become the best runner you can be. Top athletes realize that running is a long-term sport. It is set up for people who value delayed gratification and who like hard-earned success.

  Anthony Famiglietti

  Sports, Running, Athlete

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• Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Perfection, Improvement

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• If this is long delayed, weapons are blunted and morale depressed.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Long

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• Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Waiting, Victory, Important

  "Reality". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic, www.poemhunter.com.

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• The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.

  Albert J. Nock

  Army, March, Adolescence

  "Our Enemy, the State" by Albert J. Nock, (p. 28), 1935.

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• There may be challenges or crosses that may have delayed your goals temporarily, but now it’s time to move forward.

  T. D. Jakes

  Moving, Goal, Challenges

  Twitter post from Aug 31, 2015

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• Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Food, Cooking, Kitchen

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.354, Modern Library

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• Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. It’s a relation of self to the moment. Or not, depending on the person and the moment. Perhaps there even comes a time when it’s no longer too late for anything. Perhaps, even, most times are too early for most things, and most of life has to go by before it’s time for almost anything and too late for almost nothing. Nothing to lose, the present moment to gain, the integration with long-delayed Now.

  Russell Hoban

  Self, Long, Age

  Russell Hoban (1999). “A Russell Hoban omnibus”, Indiana Univ Pr

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• If a train doesn’t stop at your station, it’s simply because it’s not your train. Don’t try to flag down the conductor and convince them to stop there, even if their own map says that they should just keep going. You may not realize it, but there’s another train trying to come toward you, unable to get into your station because a train that doesn’t even belong there is being delayed there by your intensity.

  Marianne Williamson

  Trying, Flags, Maps

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• If you make intense supplication and the timing of the answer is delayed, do not despair of it. His reply to you is guaranteed; but in the way He chooses, not the way you choose, and at the moment He desires, not the moment you desire.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Wisdom, Islamic, Religion

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• Patience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means staying with something and doing all that we can - working, hoping, and exercising faith; bearing hardship with fortitude, even when the desires of our hearts are delayed. Patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well!

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Heart, Mean, Exercise

  "Continue in Patience". Dieter F. Uchtdorf's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2010.

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• Success is hastened or delayed by one’s habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Inspiration, Ideas, Everyday

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2011). “The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness”, p.15, BookBaby

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• Outrun the people who quit when they feel discomfort, outrun the people who stop because of despair, outrun the people who are delayed because of prejudice, outrun the people who surrender to failure, and outrun the opponent who loses sight of the goal. Because if you want to win, the will can never retire, the race can never stop, and faith can never weaken.

  Muhammad Ali

  Winning, Race, Sight

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• The Russians will never be able to get their missiles thought the dense protective layer of delayed flights circling over the United States in complex, puke-inducing holding patterns.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

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• The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!

  Walter Scott

  Heart, Sick

  Walter Scott (1860). “The poetical works of Sir ---”, p.560

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• God isn't calling us to a lonely, joyless existence with the promise of a delayed reward. God is calling us to live, to love and enjoy the challenge. God's formulas are roadmaps to freedom and peace. God is saying to us: "The only way to live is to be free. So save your heart for love and save your love for persons. Don't ever let any 'thing' own you. Don't let money or fame or power or the pursuit of pleasure put a ring in your nose and lead you around. Love persons and use things." And of course, this is the only way to live, to be free.

  John Powell

  God, Lonely, Heart

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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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• Drug warriors' staunch opposition to needle exchanges to prevent the spread of HIV in addicts delayed the programs' widespread introduction in most states for years. A federal ban on funding for these programs wasn't lifted until 2009. Contrast this with what happened in the U.K. At the peak of the AIDS epidemic in the mid-1990s, the HIV infection rate in IV drug users in the U.K. was about 1%. In New York City, the American epicenter, that figure was 50%. The British had introduced widespread needle exchange in 1986. That country had no heterosexual AIDS epidemic.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Country, New York, Warrior

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• You could be somewhere where the mail was delayed three weeks and do just fine investing.

  Warren Buffett

  Three, Investing, Mail

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• None of the problems that caused the crises in Europe and America have been resolved. They have been delayed and expanded by more debt and more money printing and will lead to more and worse crises.

  Bill Bonner

  Europe And America, Debt, Problem

  "Investment Legends: 'Dollar Collapse Inevitable'". Interview with Jeff Clark, www.caseyresearch.com. March 23, 2011.

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