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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock."

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Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher
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"It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence."

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Lewis Mumford Philosopher, Author
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"Moment to moment, it turns out, is not God's conception, or nature's. It is man conversing with himself about and through a piece of machinery he created."We effectively became "time-keepers, and then time-savers, and now time-servers" with the invention of the clock.""

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