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At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, in...

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In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to re...

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Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every ...

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Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt ...

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I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, fo...

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In Indian Country,” he says, “we have a different sense of time. I’m learning and you’re learning—an...

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When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of m...

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As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such a...

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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to m...

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I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different

Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been reali...

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Graham GreeneThe Power and the Glory

Then his friend said, 'If you fly you will save a day.' He nodded, he agreed, he would sacrifice his...

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I'm saying that there were many great naturalists before Darwin's time who were very pious people an...

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Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time.

People don't realize the great happiness there is in living to be very old and together all the time...

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Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. T...

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An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.

I travel all the time.

If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each secon...

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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension ...

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

For after the Battle comes quiet.

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H. G. WellsThe Time Machine

Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I s...

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Time is a great legalizer even in the field of morals.

Time is a great legalizer even in the fields of morals.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, th...

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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time ma...

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Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise a...

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Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed...

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Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his s...

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Above a certain level of income, the relative value of material consumption vis-a-vis leisure time i...

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Ha-Joon Chang23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginn...

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When I think, where did I laugh the most, where did I eat the most, where did I just feel good all t...

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I live in the present due to the constraints of the time-space continuum.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On ...

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What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time tha...

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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of ...

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It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like ...

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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructu...

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Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, th...

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Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that ...

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You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will...

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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could n...

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I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time i...

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A week is a long time in politics.

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we go...

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A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.

It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I coul...

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It's time that America's government lived by the same values as America's families. It's time we inv...

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All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, a...

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Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same tim...

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It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary pati...

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If we take care of the inches we will not have to worry about the miles.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different...

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I've run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beauti...

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Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.

Time does not expand.""But time is actually expanding, isn't it? You yourself said that time adds up...

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Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we t...

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It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says,...

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Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a ...

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The world is full of ways and means to waste time

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes....

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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its stud

Making up for lost time?""Yes," I say. "A lot of things were stolen from my childhood. Lots of impor...

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Making up for lost time?" "Yes," I say. "A lot of things were stolen from my childhood. Lots of impo...

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all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody's reach. A place beyond the f...

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Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore

Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.

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Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore

Samsa certainly had no idea what lay ahead. He was in the dark about everything: the future, of cour...

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For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

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Haruki MurakamiSouth of the Border

The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless

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Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Every story has a time to be told

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Haruki MurakamiSputnik Sweetheart

I guess time doesn't flow in order, does it - A, B, C, D? It just sort of goes where it feels like g...

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Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Wh...

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Whether I'm being influenced by new music that I'm listening to, books I've read, my friends, or my ...

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What motivates me is seeing people in the crowd and wondering what they're going home to and what th...

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If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world...

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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students."]

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as ...

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When I was younger, I had a perm, and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser, so even my dad ha...

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For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teachi...

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O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left b...

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Next time!" In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the aggregate of the tin...

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Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week...

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My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad but New York City?

No two moments are identical in a conscious being

The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the f...

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Henri BergsonTime and Free Will

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are...

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Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from w...

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People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves bur...

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The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.

They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace the...

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Time goes, you say? Ah no!Alas, Time stays, we go;Or else, were this not so, What need to chain the ...

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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less i...

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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom an...

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