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"His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day."
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"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."
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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."
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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."
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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."
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"Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go."
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"Time and the hour run through the roughest day."
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"Forget your past, live for the present day."
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"Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time."
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"Time is the longest distance between two places."
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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."
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"The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them."
Food
"As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns."
Family
"No, the czar did not want us in the schools."
School
"The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family."
Family
"We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful."
Life
"On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles."
Birthday
"You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose."
Heart
"In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths."
Family
"His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day."
Time
"There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles."
Boys
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