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Robertson Davies

"Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time."

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"Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time."

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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."

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"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."

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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

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"The value of time is immeasurable."

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"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

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"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

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"Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in that fact, one day before my birthday will come, one day before I will finish... (So far one day is popular... that's a fact called itself zipf law... )...Call it how you want, but for my it's zipfy law!"

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"No time for better words, no time to unsay anything.-Til We Have Faces."

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"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

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"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."

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