"The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time."

Time, Being, Sadness, Word

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"The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time."

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"Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song."

Zoltan Kodaly, Hungarian Composer

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"It was always me and the other guy. I came in second for a long time."

Joel Gretsch, American Actor

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"Time management is a big part of the director's job."

Debbie Allen, American Actress

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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

Evita Peron, Argentinian Statesman

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"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains."

Julian Barbour, British Scientist

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"I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future."

Van Jones, American Activist

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"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work."

Karl Kraus, Austrian Writer

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"Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence."

Khaled Hosseini, Afghan Novelist

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"Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death."

Death

"By the God of thy Father who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb."

God

"Blessing is the soveraign act of God, and the power of benediction like the power of God."

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"Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant."

Name

"We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together."

Life

"They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man."

Life

"Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!"

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"Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition."

Change

"The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time."

Time