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Time is a game played beautifully by children.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... th...

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It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope...

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[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago...

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One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a ...

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Was then not all sorrow in time, all self-torment and fear in time? Were not all difficulties and ev...

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Did you," so he asked him at one time, "did you too learn that secret from the river: that there is ...

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... the river is everywhere at once, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry,...

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Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the riv...

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We know from several statements of Knecht's that he wanted to write the former Master's biography, b...

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Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much a...

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If you only keep adding little by little it will soon become a big heap.

Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US...

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I'm tired of love I'm still more tired of rhyme but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers...

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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must...

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Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cu...

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All my life, since the time I was little, has been a long distraction. At least that is the way some...

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Enjoy the present day trusting very little to the morrow.

Happy the man, and happy he alone,he who can call today his own:he who, secure within, can say,Tomor...

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond...

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Things go bad after a divorce and often stay that way. It is rare for the parties to return placidly...

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For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of th...

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Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democr...

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Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clu...

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Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the ne...

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Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your...

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Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.

Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached.

He was thinking of that time, the way one does on long journeys when rootlessness and boredom, lack ...

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For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. O...

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I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent...

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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and partic...

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The past and present are after all so close, almost one, as if time were an artificial teasing out o...

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The past and the present are after all so close, so almost one, as if time were an artificial teasin...

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So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the ...

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Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time.""Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You w...

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From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and...

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At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, ...

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Isabel AllendeThe House of the Spirits

I always encourage women to let their individuality show by not covering up what they perceive as fl...

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A man of real purpose puts his faith in himself always. Sometimes he refuses even to put his faith i...

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It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting...

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Who I was was not acceptable to black L.A. youth: the way I spoke and my sense of humor. Everybody e...

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Long novels written today are perhaps a contradiction: the dimension of time has been shattered, we ...

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...And meanwhile the Galaxy ran through space and left behind those signs old and new and I still ha...

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A person, for example, reads in adulthood a book that is important for him, and it makes him say, "H...

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Diabetes is a disease that's had a deep impact on my family. My little brother has had type 1 diabet...

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But what is this clock, marking only so many years, that such men seem to consult in the dark of the...

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What appears to be definite and precise does not belong to any acceptable reality. It is only the ex...

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I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the b...

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I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time ...

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She glanced at her watch, reminding herself who she was.

Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free o...

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J. G. BallardThe Atrocity Exhibition

The trouble with you people is that you've been here for thirty million years and your perspectives ...

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Time is Galleons, little brother.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

In a minute, in an hour, it will be too late; whatever is happening to her will be set in stone, wil...

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Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we go...

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Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing...

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I sit beside the fire and think Of all that I have seenOf meadow flowers and butterfliesIn summers t...

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But whenever I say that I will do this or that, it looks very different when the time comes.

I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo."So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring

It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.

This thing all things devours:Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;Gnaws iron, bites steel;Grinds hard ston...

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I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild ni...

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He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, go...

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Jack LondonThe Call of the Wild

I respect Apple. It's a great company that changed the world, especially the mobile time.

He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot ...

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Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know...

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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a ba...

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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrati...

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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, ...

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It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment fo...

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Jamaica KincaidThe Autobiography of My Mother

I'm always ready for the enemy to come over the hill. I'm packed and set to go. That comes from my t...

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New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take ...

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A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning abou...

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For me, law school was a time of joy and hope. Joy in learning my way around the law - learning how ...

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An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small num...

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Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't accept ...

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Every time a new technology comes along, we feel we're about to break through to a place where we wi...

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Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.

I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is c...

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In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained Know'st thou when Fate Thy ...

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual ...

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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

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James ThurberThe 13 Clocks

She has a memory of trees and fields and nothing more.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it dow...

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All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone to show that you can make mistakes -...

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It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics...

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Time did not compose her.

Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.