"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."
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"The only thing that endures over time is the 'Law of the Farm.' You must prepare the ground, plant the seed, cultivate, and water if you expect to reap the harvest."
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"The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him."
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"Emptying the ashtrays was very expressive of myself. i just lump everything in a great heap which i have labeled ‘the past,’ and having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, i am ready to continue."
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"At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time."
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"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end."
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"O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!"
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"Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air."
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"What I tell you three times is true."
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"Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does."
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"A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle."
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"Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures."
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"A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward."
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"In the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection."
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"There's no point sitting here, using words that mean nothing. Go and experiment. It's time you got out of here. Go and re-conquer your kingdom, which has grown corrupted by routine. Stop repeating the same lesson, because you won't learn anything new that way."
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"Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity."
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"Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure."
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"We are each other’s angels, we meet when it is time."
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"Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time."
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"The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it."
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