"Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."

Time, Life, Being, Clocks

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"Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."

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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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"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough."

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George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."

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"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent."

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"I believe I was ahead of my time."

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"I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it."

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"Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too."

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"Freedom comes with the decision: it does not wait for the act."

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"When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get."

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"It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister."

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"Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks."

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"Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean."

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"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."

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