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Topic·Making the most✕clear

Novel

Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day.

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day · 1989

★ 1.9

Novel

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea · 1952

★ 2.1

Film · Epic (film) · Science fiction (film) · Epic · Science fiction

I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.

HAL 9000

2001: A Space Odyssey · 1968

★ 3.6

Film · Epic (film) · Fantasy (film) · Epic · Fantasy

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

Gandalf

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring · 2001

★ 3.7

Personal journal · Philosophical literature

Think of the life you have lived until now as over and, as a dead man, see what’s left as a bonus and live it according to Nature. Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own, for what could be more fitting?

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations · 180

★ 3.8

Speech

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1837

★ 7.0

Film · Prison drama (film) · Drama (film) · Prison drama · Drama

Sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand.

Luke

Cool Hand Luke · 1967

★ 7.1

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