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• We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent domestic issue that can be kicked about by reactionary guardians of the status quo; it is rather an eternal moral issue which may well determine the destiny of our nation in the ideological struggle with communism. The hour is late. The clock of destiny is ticking out. We must act now, before it is too late.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Destiny, Men

  "The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume IV: Symbol of the Movement, January 1957-December 1958". Book by Martin Luther King, Clayborne Carson, Peter Holloran, Ralph Luker, Penny A. Russell (University of California Press), p. 211, 1992.

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• When Grand Masters play, they see the logic of their opponent's moves. One's moves may be so powerful that the other may not be able to stop him, but the plan behind the moves will be clear. Not so with Fischer. His moves did not make sense - at least to all the rest of us they didn't. We were playing chess, Fischer was playing something else, call it what you will. Naturally, there would come a time when we finally would understand what those moves had been about. But by then it was too late. We were dead.

  Mark Taimanov

  Powerful, Moving, Play

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• If you jump into a market when everyone else is doing the same thing, you're probably too late. On the other hand, if you get into a market early, when it's fundamentally undervalued, then wait for it to become extremely overvalued, and sell once a true top has been established, you should do very well.

  Michael Maloney

  Hands, Waiting, Should

  Michael Maloney (2015). “Guide To Investing in Gold & Silver: Protect Your Financial Future”, p.60, RDA Press, LLC

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• How does one make a movie about decadence these days? Now that we're allowed to do it, it's too late.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Doe, Decadence, These Days

  Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word and other words”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The NeXT purchase is too little too late. Apple is already dead.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Apples, Littles, Next

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• Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a train is missed, a call comes too late--and the real test of our humanness is whether, in light of that knowledge, we are ever able to recover. When we again find our way despite the inability to manufacture a deeper meaning in our suffering, that I think is when God smiles upon us, proud of the strength of his creation.

  Neil Abramson

  Real, Grief, Thinking

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• Before hastening to secure a possible reward of five taels by dragging an unobservant person away from a falling building, examine well his features lest you find, when too late, that it is one to whom you are indebted for double that amount.

  Ernest Bramah

  Fall, Rewards, Building

  Ernest Bramah (2016). “THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more”, p.126, e-artnow

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• Should a person on returning from the city discover his house to be in flames, let him examine well the change which he has received from the chair-carrier before it is too late; for evil never travels alone.

  Ernest Bramah

  Flames, Cities, Evil

  Ernest Bramah (2016). “THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more”, p.154, e-artnow

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• Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.

  Peter Porter

  Fate, World, God Life

  Peter Porter (1992). “The chair of Babel”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I tried to be the greatest boxer in the world and a good parent, too. I had instant feedback on my success as a boxer. Often, parents don't really know if what they are doing is right or wrong until their child is grown and it is too late to change any of the decisions. Whatever my failings as a parent, I am very proud of all my children. It wasn't easy for them to make their own way with such a controversial and public father.

  Muhammad Ali

  Children, Father, Decision

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2004). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.

  Pliny the Elder

  Opportunity, Agriculture, Done

  Pliny (the Elder.) (1856). “The Natural History of Pliny”, p.18

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• Safe sex, safe music, safe clothing, safe hair spray, safe ozone layer. Too late! Everything that's been achieved in the history of mankind has been achieved by not being safe.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Sex, Ozone, Hair

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• There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it's too soon to plant the dahlias and starts wondering if it's too late.

  Henry Mitchell

  Spring, Hot Days, Dahlias

  Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.17, Indiana University Press

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• Conscience ... seldom comes to a man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter.

  George Washington

  Men, Luxury, Zenith

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1782). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.486

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• Every day is the same thing out the door Feel further away then ever before Some things in life, it gets too late to learn Well, I'm lost somewhere I must have made a few bad turns

  Bob Dylan

  Life, Doors, Lost

  Song: Highlands

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• It's like seeing someone for the first time, and you look at each other for a few seconds, and there's this kind of recognition like you both know something. Next moment the person's gone, and it's too late to do anything about it.

  Elmore Leonard

  Romantic Love, Looks, Gone

  "Out of Sight". Book by Elmore Leonard, 1996.

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• Every man must be made to realize that further retreat is impossible. He must realize with his mind and heart that this is a matter of life and death of the Soviet state, of the life and death of the people of our country...the Nazi troops must be stopped now, before it is too late.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Country, Heart, Men

  Statement made in World War II, as a commissar on the southern front, as quoted in "Leonid I. Brezhnev: Pages from his Life" by Academy of Sciences of the USSR, p. 49, 1978.

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• Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late.

  Andre Maurois

  Perfect One, Action, Imperfect

  Andre Maurois (2007). “An Art of Living”, p.149, SpiralPress

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• She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one.

  Daniel Defoe

  Marriage, Husband, Married

  Daniel Defoe, George Chalmers (1840). “The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe”, p.76

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• Never say you are too old. You do not say it now, perhaps; but by and by, when the hair grows gray and the eyes grow dim and the young despair comes to curse the old age, you will say, "It is too late for me." Never too late! Never too old! How old are you--thirty, fifty, eighty? What is that in immortality? We are but children.

  Lyman Abbott

  Children, Eye, Hair

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• There's a long goodbye,and it happens every day,when a passerbyinvites your eyeto come away.Even as you smile a quick helloyou let her go,you let the moment fly...Too late you turn your head,you know you've saidthe Long Goodbye.

  Johnny Mercer

  Goodbye, Long, Moments

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• Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Men, Bait, Hook

  Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

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• No Legislature can really destroy a religious conviction, except by exterminating its holders. It is historically too late to do that, and we shall live to see the drowned Egyptians on the seashore even yet.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Religious, Conviction, Legislature

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• When you're young, you think you can handle anything. By the time you find out otherwise, it's already too late. You got a stocking wrapped around your neck.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Necks, Youth

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• I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I'm too old, it's too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.

  Bobby Fischer

  Order, Freedom Of Speech, World

  YouTube Chanel "Peter Wolf"/ "Bobby Fischer tells the truth and nothing but the truth", www.youtube.com. September 19, 2007.

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