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"Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time."

"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."

"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..."

"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."

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

"We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time."
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"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract."

"Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race."

"Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so."

"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back."

"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

"We must think things not words or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand if we are to keep to the real and the true."

"I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny it."

"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."
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