"There's no time for winking at the men when you're busy bailing the boat."
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"The obscurest epoch is to-day."
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"the scythers, Time and Death, Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath"
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"At nineteen, it seems to me, one has a right to be arrogant; time has usually not begun its stealthy and rotten subtractions. It takes away your hair and your jump-shot, according to a popular country song, but in truth it takes away a lot more than that."
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"Time is a face on the water."
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"I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years."
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"The poets get a quizzical ahem. They reflect time, I am the very ticking."
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"Was there ever a time when the majority was right?"
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"Heaven isnot a place, and it isnot atime.Heaven isbeing perfect."
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"Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results are curious. For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another atfifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three-Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing."
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"One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present."
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"Jean-Baptiste Mondino: "She's John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the same time"."
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"He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives."
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"Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose."
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"I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime."
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"Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood."
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"Nothing is swifter than our years."
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"Temporis ars medicina fere est. Time is generally the best medicine."
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"We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot."
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"Time is the devourer of all things."
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