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"One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well."
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"Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time."
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"The mind of man works with 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 by the timepiece of the mind by one second. This extraordinary discrepancy between time on the clock and time in the mind is less known than it should be, and deserves fuller investigation."
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"Today and now I hate this words they sound horrible, sound powerful and you just get more older and more older. I just said them when I was 9, now I'm 16 soon I will be 17. And again I use them "now" and "today" you can also say "no" but it's now 18:07 after five blinks with the eyes it just becomes 18:08, I hate today. Everyone uses it, but it's for two different places I also use today, for me is 4.10.2016, but for you this is past, and your today is 4.10.2026..."
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"ING is ending for something which continue and continue...So Morning - Continue - Start AfterNoon - The Middle - Almost finish Night - The ENd - Finish."
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"First comes the day, then the seconds of the event, then the days which become weeks, then the months, then the years."
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"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents."
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"It's strange how in childhood it feels like tomorrow won't come until the end of forever, but in adulthood it feels like the end of forever could come tomorrow."
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"For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible."
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"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."
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"There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time."
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"Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about."
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"There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave."
People
"One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well."
Time
"Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week."
Age
"The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination."
Age
"It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business."
Business
"Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety."
People
"In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought."
Art
"Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty."
Fact
"The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy."
Life
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