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«''Now'' is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.»
«After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend»
«Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.»
«A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain - then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?»
«A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.»
«He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever»
«Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding that limit»
«After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow»
«Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Sin | Keywords: minutes, saved, sermon, sinners, twenty
«A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.»

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