“We sleep 1/3 of our lives away.”

— Albert Einstein

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German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativi… 1879–1955

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“Many solemn nights
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“If I paid $3 or $4 for a cigar, first I'd sleep with it.”

George Burns (1896–1996) American comedian, actor, and writer

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“When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.”

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“We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives..., not looking for flaws, but for potential.”

Ellen Goodman (1941) American journalist and writer

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“We are not hypocrites in our sleep.”

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The Plain Speaker (1826)

“Time found our tired love sleeping,
And kissed away his breath;
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Algernon Charles Swinburne book Poems and Ballads

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“We live, but we do not feel the land beneath us,
Ten steps away and our words cannot be heard.”

Osip Mandelstam Stalin Epigram

"Stalin Epigram" (November 1933) (Russian: Мы живем, под собою не чуя страны... http://www.litera.ru/stixiya/authors/mandelshtam/my-zhivem-pod.html; English: "We live, not sensing our own country beneath us", http://www.tonykline.co.uk/PITBR/Russian/MoreMandelstam.htm#_Toc103483111) trans. A. S. Kline.

“Democracy means that if this man, you, and I will be trapped on an island, we having a majority of votes will decide that you have to sleep with us. That's the Democracy. And with 2/3 votes we can even put that in the constitution.”

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“I live and work with three basic assumptions, 1) There is no problem in science that can be solved by a man that cannot be solved by a woman. 2) Worldwide, half of all brains are in women. 3) We all need permission to do science, but, for reasons that are deeply ingrained in history, this permission is more often given to men than to women.”

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“We sleep 1/3 of our lives away.”

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