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Time and tide, he thought. The cycle of life. Ending in this, the last twilight. Before the silence ...

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Philip K. DickDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

I'm not much but I'm all I have.

Retrograde time is forward time which has passed the turning point; then as it turns back it is frei...

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Philip K. DickThe Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

Time has transfigured them intoUntruth. The stone fidelityThey hardly meant has come to beTheir fina...

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We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as th...

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The positive and negative states of being bring about action. They cause the loss of balance and of ...

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The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and sp...

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I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture.

Things are beautiful or ugly only in time and space. The new man's vision being liberated from these...

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Time is the moving image of eternity.

Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great...

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The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by G...

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We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive metho...

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Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it anot...

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Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, on...

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People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep m...

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But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last.

I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just a...

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Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's pr...

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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time whe...

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When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. ...

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Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we ha...

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a...

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The butterfly counts not months but moments And has time enough.

With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving ...

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I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anx...

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It is one thing to train officers on fighting crime. It is a whole other thing to train them to buil...

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If someone thinks, 'I'll spend the off season working on my fitness and I'll come back a better cric...

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I would like to sing someone to sleep,to sit beside someone and be there.I would like to rock you an...

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Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hu...

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The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These ...

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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison i...

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Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and...

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The years teach much the days never know.

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in cou...

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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If yo...

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Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, t...

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What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been ali...

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I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point...

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We could try freedom for a while. We had it for a long time. That's where you sell something, and I ...

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One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had th...

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And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipati...

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Want to have a short phone call with someone? Call them at 11:55 a.m., right before lunch. They'll t...

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Randy PauschThe Last Lecture

I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all th...

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If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd n...

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Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that.

The mosquitos were gone from the porch, and surely when they abandoned the conflict the war with Tim...

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Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.

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Ray BradburyA Sound of Thunder and Other Stories

And what lights the sun? Its own fire. And the sun goes on, day after day, burning and burning. The ...

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The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.

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Ray BradburyFahrenheit 451

Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about bo...

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The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of cent...

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Ray BradburyFarewell Summer

How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what...

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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes

Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I jus...

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It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a s...

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Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningle...

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By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That wi...

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My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most ...

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Time makes everything mean and shabby and wrinkled. The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the bea...

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I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands ...

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I work for ABC television I have my own syndicated TV series. I've been on the cover of 'Time Magazi...

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There's a certain time that when somebody asks you a question, you answer them. I don't think I said...

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Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well,...

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If every work of the day had thus its appointed time, we should be better skilled, both in redeeming...

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Richard BaxterThe Saints' Everlasting Rest

I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of y...

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If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeti...

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I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction - especially autobiographies and biographies...

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Devon holds a special place in my heart. As a child, I normally went on holiday to Bantham and have ...

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Our names were made for us in another century.

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your c...

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I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We...

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I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to refle...

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America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rig...

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Dreaminess is, among other things, a state of suspended recognition, and a response to too much usel...

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Parsifal is on his way to the temple of the Grail Knights and says: “I hardly move, yet far I seem t...

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It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, ...

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George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed t...

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Our father knew more than any living person about the secret of time, except how to live in it. His ...

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Richard PowersThe Time of Our Singing

There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, n...

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The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.

Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye...

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away all ...

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Oh my God - this is scary and sad all at the same time. I literally dream about buying my own grocer...

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I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, i...

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I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens...

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When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

Music is my main goal, but I'm not going to rush a record out. There are so many actors who have com...

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Men were foolish and were made only so that they should die, while mountains and rivers went on for ...

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When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go ...

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Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and...

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Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can...

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I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to...

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You'll have time to rest when you're dead.

Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh...

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Robert E. HowardBran Mak Morn: The Last King