"Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day."
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"What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?"
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"Anytime you see a Hungarian, kick him. He'll know why. Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours."
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"Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day."
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"Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up."
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"Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass."
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"Every hour wounds. The last one kills."
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"At night I can write for hours."
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"The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down."
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"An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours."
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"The key to getting ahead is setting aside 8 hours a day for work and 8 hours a day for sleep - and making sure they're not the same hours."
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"We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate."
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"Mike Pence came out and said this was a courtesy call, then Donald Trump a few hours later went on Twitter, as is his wont, and essentially linked the call to Taiwan with a whole series of things he doesn't like about Chinese economic and foreign policies and implied that the U.S. views of the status of Taiwan are now up for negotiation, that he wants them to be part of a broader negotiation with China about a whole series of economic and foreign policy issues. So, we just don't really know what exactly they're planing to do with this."
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"To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops."
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"It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession."
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"How awful is that hour when con, science stings."
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"Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour."
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"The present hour is always wealthiest when it is poorer than the future ones, as that is the pleasantest site which affords the pleasantest prospect."
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"The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth."
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"I can be drunk until 6 in the morning, and then I don't have to show up to work until 14 hours later."
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