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Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented we'...

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We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time wh...

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The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago,' continued Marvin.Again the pause. 'Oh...

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Douglas AdamsThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Chronocanine Envy:Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only...

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Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.

Dimanchophobia:Fear of Sundays, not in a religious sense but rather, a condition that reflects fear ...

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I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Ear...

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I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New ...

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Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumpti...

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For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of cr...

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I've had maybe 20 jobs, big and small, and I've never hated any of them. At the same time, the momen...

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Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?

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Douglas CouplandPlayer One: What Is to Become of Us

Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to ...

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We can no longer create the feeling of an era...of time being particular to one spot in time.

Chronotropic Drugs:Drugs engineered to affect one's sense of time. Chronodecelocotropic drugs have n...

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Douglas CouplandPlayer One: What Is to Become of Us

And the reason Luke is thinking about time and free will is because he believes that money is the cl...

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Douglas CouplandPlayer One: What Is to Become of Us

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ro...

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How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June....

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They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast...

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Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

The easiest diet is, you know, eat vegetables, eat fresh food. Just a really sensible healthy diet l...

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I don't need time, I need a deadline.

I'll never, ever be full. I'll always be hungry. Obviously, I'm not talking about food. Growing up, ...

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Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. ...

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My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she'd seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still t...

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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an establ...

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My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging o...

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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing ...

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we may say that History develops, Art stands still

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the ...

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When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the ene...

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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true...

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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.

Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but...

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Eckhart TolleThe Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

There's this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was ...

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On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunsling...

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I suppose one of the challenges of writing the word-side of music these days is trying to decipher a...

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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think ...

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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect...

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Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind thei...

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We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just...

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One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself ...

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Edith WhartonThe House of Mirth

Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.

Barack Obama's decision to come out in favour of gay marriage may be a historic occasion, but it is ...

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I will come back to you, I swear I will;And you will know me still.I shall be only a little tallerTh...

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I am not particularly interested insaving time I prefer to enjoy it.

I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not bec...

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We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with ...

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The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote.

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Edward BellamyLooking Backward: 2000-1887

I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the...

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I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not...

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... but I must reluctantly observe that two causes, the abbreviation of time, and the failure of hop...

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Edward GibbonMemoirs of My Life

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of fr...

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The United States is in a time of transition. Courts have redefined marriage, and beliefs about huma...

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I always wake up early Saturday morning, and I have a little bit more time, so I go to the gym.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience w...

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You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you...

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Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back ...

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It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were ...

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It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have ...

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I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experie...

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that ...

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There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac...

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She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give h...

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Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. Time - when pursued like bandit - wil...

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Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth r...

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It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity ...

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I don't pay attention to the number of birthdays. It's weird when I say I'm 53. It just is crazy tha...

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No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be sma...

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The first time probably people really were aware of me, I unfortunately had the title of Showtime's ...

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'I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divo...

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I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thin...

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I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised ther...

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Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead,...

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Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intell...

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You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and ...

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You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relati...

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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.

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Emily BrontëJane Eyre / Les Hauts de Hurle-Vent / Agnes Grey

Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it proved it proves too There was no Melody.

Look back on Time, with kindly eyes -He doubtless did his best -How softly sinks that trembling sunI...

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I'm obsessed with Nicholas Sparks. I've literally read every single book, because every time I trave...

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We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier....

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I would love to persuade Christopher Bailey to get even just a section of Burberry that's, like, org...

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I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and bein...

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Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they ar...

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how does she know it's the right room?' wondered Descant.Oh, I don't know; mabye it's the magical re...

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They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he m...

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It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending.

I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survived. B...

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I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded...

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If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compressio...

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Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

We came to realize how little married couples see of each other once they crawl in the bourgeois box...

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