"Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession."

Time, Men, Confession, Gossip

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"Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession."

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"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time would seem interminable. It should be so, but it is not. It is the dull eventless times that have no duration whatever. A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy - that's the time that seems long in the memory. And this is right when you think about it. Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

Loretta Lynn, American Musician

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Josh Billings, American Comedian

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"Time and the hour run through the roughest day."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Forget your past, live for the present day."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

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Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist

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"By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport."

Julius Boros, American Athlete

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"Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual."

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"For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction."

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"Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release."

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"Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship."

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"For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men."

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"The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations."

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"In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events."

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