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Will Wright Game Designer
Time

"Well, I think the camera freedom is something that we've resisted for a long time and feels like probably the biggest stretch. But it has some huge benefits."

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Van Morrison Singer-Songwriter
Time

"Shivers up and down my spine It's a feeling so divine Let me go back for a while Got to go back for a while To that magic time."

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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
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"And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair."

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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
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"But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring. O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter And on her daughter They wash their feet in soda water."

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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
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"Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street."

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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
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"Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled."

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Tanith Lee Author
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"What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter."

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