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TIME !
Voltaire, the famous Frenchmen, was a dwarf in body and a giant in intellect.
In his ZADIG, a mystery of Fate is found following question put to Zadig by Magi;
"What, of all things in the world, are longest and shortest, the swiftest and the slowest, the most divisible and the most extended, the most neglected and the most regretted, without which nothing can be done, which devours all that is little, and enlivens all that is great?"
Here is Zadig's answer;
"TIME"
"Nothing is longer, since it is the measure of eternity."
"Nothing is shorter, since it is insufficient for the accomplishment of your projects."
Nothing is more slow to him that expects; nothing more rapid to him that enjoys."
"In greatness it extends to infinity, in smallness it is infinitely divisible."
"All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it."
"It consigns to oblivion whatever is unworthy of being transmitted to poesterity, and it immoralizes such actions as are truly great."
TIME, my dear GS members, is man's most precious asset!
Jeevay Jeevay PAKISTAN
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