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Find important quotes and citations by the author Arnold Bennett.
Quote 3494
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.Quote 3493
You can control nothing but your own mind.Quote 3492
In case of friction, the machine is always at fault.Quote 3491
The human machine is an apparatus of brain and muscle for enabling the Ego to develop freely in the universe by which it is surrounded, without friction.Quote 3490
And when I say "the human machine" I mean the brain and the body—and chiefly the brain.Quote 3489
The idea of devoting to them thirty or forty consecutive minutes of wonderful solitude is to me repugnant.Quote 3488
I cannot possibly allow you to scatter priceless pearls of time with such Oriental lavishness.Quote 3487
No newspaper reading in trains!Quote 3486
I will defy you to account to me on the spur of the moment for the other eight hours.Quote 3485
He has a solid coin of time to spend every day—call it a sovereign.Quote 3484
So let us begin to examine the budget of the day's time.Quote 3483
You can only waste the passing moment.Quote 3482
The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of twenty-four hours is the calm realisation of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.Quote 3481
We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.Quote 3480
You have to live on this twenty-four hours of daily time.Quote 3479
The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.Quote 3478
Philosophers have explained space. They have not explained time.Quote 1470
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