John Newton
Clergyman, Hymn Writer
"Our work is great; our time is short; the consequences of our labors are infinite."
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Our Time
70 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Michael Marcus
Trader, Author
"Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them."
Celia Green
Psychologist
"One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none."
Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published."
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"Christina Aguilera, to me, has one of the greatest voices of our time and I got nothing but respect for her."
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"When we waste our time, our time wastes us"
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"Our Times, a Brief History: As televisions became flatter, People became rounder."
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"One of the great autoharpists and folksingers of our times."
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"It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might."
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"This is our time. Until that time stops - for one of us, for both – it is our time. Now. Will you waste it, because you are afraid?"
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"The only great spirit of our time."
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"Yazidis are facing the worst genocide of our times. They have been reduced from 23 million to 1 million."
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"There is a massive call for more lightworkers, and now is our time to rise up and bring more positivity to the world."
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"I'm a guy who is just trying to be successful in whatever I do, and I give everything to my teammates, give everything to the coaching staff. When you fall short, it hurts and it eats at you, and it hurts me to know that I wish I could have done better and done more and just put a little bit more effort or whatever the case may be to help us get over the hump. But it just wasn't our time."
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