"I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing."
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"If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water, fire next time."
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"Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes."
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"We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come."
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"There is no time like the pleasant."
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"Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?"
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"In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little."
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"It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops"
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"We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass . . ."
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"Time, like money, is measured by our needs."
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"The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door."
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"Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure."
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"Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself."
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"We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time. No one would have guessed in 1941 that we would be attacked in such an unsportsmanlike manner as we were. No one could have visualized Pearl Harbor, either out there or in Washington. But if we had known then what we know now, we would have expected an attack in 1941."
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"Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time."
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"Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be."
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"All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death."
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"Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by urgent work, business to attent do or some service to render."
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"He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four hours in each day."
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"A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy."
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