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John Ciardi

"Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope."

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"Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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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"I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans."

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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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Amber Hurdle

"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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"Here hath been dawning another blue day: think wilt thou let it slip useless away?"

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Amber Hurdle

"We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time."

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"Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old."
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