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The first question they ask is: "Why was he eternally surprised?"And they were told: "Wen considered...

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By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is ...

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It is well known that stone can think, because the whole of electronics is based on that fact, but i...

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Time travel was only a kind of magic, after all. That's why it always went wrong.

Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time.

There is always time for another last minute

Time and space were, from Death's point of view, merely things that he'd heard described. When it ca...

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I REMEMBER WHEN ALL THIS WILL BE AGAIN.

I kill in my own time,” he said. “In any case, killing unconscious people isn’t right.”“I can’t thin...

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I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while...

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Terry PratchettThe Last Continent

Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people o...

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Terry PratchettThief of Time

The calendar of the Theocracy of Muntab counts down, not up. No-one knows why, but it might not be a...

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She never sent the castle to sleep”, said Granny, “that’s just an old wife’s tale. She just stirred ...

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I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question...

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If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by...

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A timely benefit, -though thing of little worth,The gift itself, -in excellence transcends the earth

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don'...

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Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old ...

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Once in Persia reigned a king Who upon his signet ring Graved a maxim true and wise Which if held b...

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When the rare chance comes, seize itTo do the rare deed.

It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the Engli...

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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more...

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may em...

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With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its o...

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What a day may bring a day may take away.

What a day may bring a day may take away.

What a day may bring a day may take away.

What a day may bring a day may take away.

What a day may bring a day may take away.

What a day may bring a day may take away.

What a day may bring a day may take away.

What a day may bring a day may take away.

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will ...

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Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equal...

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During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions...

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Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his he...

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never ...

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Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But t...

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No, not of course at all—it is really all hocus-pocus. The days lengthen in the winter-time, and whe...

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Thomas MannThe Magic Mountain

The diaries of opium-eaters record how, during the brief period of ecstasy, the drugged person's dre...

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Thomas MannThe Magic Mountain

Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroun...

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Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time.

Something deep in human make up needs and longs for a taste of eternity--a momentary release from th...

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Thomas MooreThe Soul of Sex: Cultivating Life as an Act of Love

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers th...

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But in the dynamic space of the living Rocket, the double integral has a different meaning. To integ...

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But in the dynamic space of the living Rocket , the double integral has a different meaning. To inte...

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Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy i...

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Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves ...

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In this marvelous dispensation of the fulness of times, our opportunities to give of ourselves are i...

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Thomas S. MonsonPathways To Perfection: Discourses Of Thomas S. Monson

What a greater crime. Than loss of time.

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Thomas TusserFive Hundred Points of Good Husbandry as Well for the Champion or Open Countrey

His life coiled back into the brown murk of the past like a twined filament of electric wire; he gav...

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I can't look at everything hard enough!

Yes, now you know. Now you know! That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignoran...

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Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to m...

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I feel like that I'm learning all the time. I'm learning from new artists, from established artists....

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Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that ev...

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I work, and then whenever I have any other time, I'm with my daughter, and then I go to sleep. I thi...

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Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Satu...

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I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I d...

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Everyday is one less day.

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to mak...

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I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a ...

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You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.

If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of t...

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Information about time cannot be imparted in a straightforward way. Like furniture, it has to be tip...

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When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trail...

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

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Tom StoppardRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Ever...

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As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool ...

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There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday...

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I can remember that on the shelves at home, there were these books by Thomas Wolfe. 'Look Homeward A...

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There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now...

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The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short...

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I was talking about time. It's so hard for me to believe in it. Some things go. Pass on. Some things...

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For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the...

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I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During th...

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Like our physical bodies, our memory becomes out of shape. As children, we are constantly learning n...

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We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities...

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I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wher...

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Any time not spent on love is wasted.

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and no...

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Mummy weighed sweets and nuts so that everyone would get exactly the same amount. During the year, e...

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Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue pa...

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I'm afraid we shall waste an awful lot of time.""Don't worry," answered Snufkin, "we shall have wond...

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Tove JanssonFinn Family Moomintroll

Now that I have a thousand albums in my car all the time, I listen to more music. I was too lazy; I ...

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I've always been into computers. When I was getting out of high school and forming my identity music...

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People tend to cherish and take care of the things they pay for and therefore own, countries include...

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Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied ...

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I'd be willing to bet that the notion of the end of time is more common today in the secular world t...

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It is not until an act occurs within the landscape of the past and future that it is a human act. Lo...

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We came, Takver thought, from a great distance to each other. We have always done so. Over great dis...

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There is no break in the wholeness of time.

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Ursula K. Le GuinThe Dispossessed