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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

My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of thi...

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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a ...

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The future is keeping you out of the present time.

The snow filled the air with a soft grey-blue mist, softening the wind and gunfire, bringing the ear...

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a person who does not have respect for time, and does not have a sense of timing, can achieve little...

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But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in som...

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When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took...

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It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

It's amazing to me that Glenn Beck can be on the cover of 'Time,' and there can be a whole article a...

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Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-...

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Inches make a champion.

We didn't lose the game we just ran out of time.

Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together.

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn ho...

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The mind of man works with strangeness upon the body of time. An hour once it lodges in the queer e...

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Are they not criminals, books that have wasted our time and sympathy; are they not the most insidiou...

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Virginia WoolfHow Should One Read a Book?

Fear no more," said Clarissa. Fear no more the heat o' the sun; for the shock of Lady Bruton asking ...

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First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.

But there could be no doubt that greatness was seated within; greatness was passing, hidden, down Bo...

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But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctual...

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The mind of man works with strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer e...

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The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodg...

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For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it i...

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We became six people at a table in Hampton Court. We rose and walked together down the avenue. In th...

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I have too much product, and I'm trying to rein it in and sell more of my main collection. I wish yo...

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I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or l...

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I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to s...

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Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm ...

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But as Van casually directed the searchlight of backthought into that maze of the past where the mir...

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A thousand years ago five minutes wereEqual to forty ounces of fine sand.Outstare the stars. Infinit...

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I spend a little time every day to play sports.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to...

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and...

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So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we ...

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W. H. AudenThe Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose