"Time bears away all things."
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"Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook."
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"Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead."
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"One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right."
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"The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy."
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"Forelimbs of people, porpoises, bats and horses provide the classic example of homology in most textbooks. They look different, and do different things, but are built of the same bones. No engineer, starting from scratch each time, would have built such disparate structures from the same parts."
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"The intrinsic brightness of theSun is fully 5,000 times as great as if the whole surface were formed of the molten steel just issuing from the Bessemer converter."
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"Sorry... my mind was wandering... one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn’t pay for."
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"Gardeners celebrate the influence of time. If we have had a late cold spring followed by a desiccating drought, autumn may be the most soft and golden for years; one poor season will sooner or later be compensated for by another."
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"Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time."
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"Time is truly the great enemy. It's not the great healer, it's the great stealer."
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"Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything."
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"The day is conscious of itself."
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"Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond conquest. First this little planet and all its winds and ways, and then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him. Then the planets about him, and, at last, out across immensities to the stars. And when he has conquered all the deep space, and all the mysteries of time, still he will be beginning."
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"A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time"
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"The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late."
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"At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours."
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"[On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky."
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"In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues."
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"Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest."
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