"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness."

Time, Dream, Act, Darkness

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"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness."

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"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!"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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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."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

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"The value of time is immeasurable."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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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."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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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!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them."

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"Violence is a calm that disturbs you."

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"I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger."

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"Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?"

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"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness."

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"The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology."

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"A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle."

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"Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun."

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"Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all."

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"Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man."

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