"No man knows he is young while he is young."
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"I feel here that this time they have succeeded."
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"O time! swift devourer of all created things!"
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"I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental."
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"O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away."
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"O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and how many changes of states and of various events have happened since the wondrous forms of this fish perished here in this cavernous and winding recess. Now destroyed by time thou liest patiently in this confined space with bones stripped and bare; serving as a support and prop for the superimposed mountain."
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"The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors, painters, and artists in allied fields. The award for the best painting went to the canvas of an Illinois artist. It was described as "a macabre, detailed work showing a closed door bearing a funeral wreath." Equally striking was the work's title: "That which I should have done, I did not do.""
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"We heard recently the touching story of a young flier who was killed in action. Before he died, he had time to scrawl only a few words as a brief final message to his parents back home. The note read: "Dear Mom and Pop; I had time to say my prayers. Jack.""
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"As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them.""
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"Some time ago I took a trip on the Hudson and Manhattan Transit System. Not being familiar with the names of the various stops, I asked the man next to me the name of the station where we had just stopped. He replied, "I've been riding this line for fifteen years and I only know two stops: where I get on and where I get off.""
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"There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation."
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"What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!"
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"No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times."
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"People compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what he really values. The same thing applies to money that applies to time. I make a practice of watching what people do, never what they say. Whatever is important, to anyone sane, he will make a place for it; people live out their values. Values are different in this respect from "ideals," which are typically vain and effete and thus exist mostly for the sake of promoting self-delusions."
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"The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage."
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"My beloved friend - one of the most unique and charming personalities of our time."
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"Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination."
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"A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!"
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""She can't do sums a bit!" the Queens said together, with great emphasis. "Can you do sums?" Alice said, turning suddenly on the White Queen, for she didn't like being found fault with so much. The Queen gasped and shut her eyes. "I can do Addition, if you give me time-but I can do Subtraction, under any circumstances!""
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"Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the "Faery Queen.""
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