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

"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"

"Wouldn't it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? You can. If you can foresee regret, you can mind-travel to the future. If you can train yourself to mind-travel effectively, you can intentionally affect your future by doing something about it today."

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."

"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
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"Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force."

"None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience."

"There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks."

"Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds."

"Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject."

"While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern."
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