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For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.

For all the compasses in the world, there’s only one direction, and time is its only measure.
– Tom Stoppard

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  3. Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You’d have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I’m not dead. – Tom Stoppard
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  21. Setting sail using different moral compasses causes a relationship to go in circles. – Khang Kijarro Nguyen
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  27. When one conducts himself in the wrong direction, he goes downward and his conduct in the right direction will take him upward! – Dada Bhagwan
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  29. you may be wrong to be right in the wrong direction, but, what is the wrong direction? – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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  37. To measure the man, measure his heart. – Malcolm Forbes
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