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Letter "P" » postpone
«The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive.»
«It is foolish to postpone enjoyment of your ordinary life until you are more successful, more secure, or more loved than you are today»
«I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.»
«Postpone not a good action»
«Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.»
«Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.»
Author: Truman Capote
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Novelist,
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«Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?»
«Many have gone through life merely accumulating the instruments of life. Consider individuals, survey men in general: there is none whose life does not look forward to the morrow. 'What harm is there in this?' you ask. Infinite harm; for such persons do not live, but are preparing to live. They postpone everything.»
«We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.»