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"The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist."
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"It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself."
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"Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing."
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"Near the point of impact, time acelerates to the speed of light."
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"They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them; and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time."
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"Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe."
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"He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time."
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"The end we know not; but we wander on, Down the regretful wilderness of time."
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"Time is short and full, like an outgrown Frock - ."
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"The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone."
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"Time is a great teacher, Who can live without hope?"
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"Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you traveled. This will come to you as a profound shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister."
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"Overly focused, it's far from the time to rest now. Debates growin bout who they think is the best now"
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"Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea."
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"Time in the heart and sequence in the brain-- Such as destroyed Rimbaud and fooled Verlaine. And let us then take godhead by the neck-- And strangle it, and with it, rhetoric."
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"Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies."
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"The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it."
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"In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us."
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"Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy."
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