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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."
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Personal Development
"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!"
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"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."
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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."
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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."
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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
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Personal Development
"The value of time is immeasurable."
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Personal Development
"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."
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"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."
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"What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?"
Obligation
"Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children."
Family
"In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society."
Society
"My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me."
Family
"I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man."
Man
"No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew."
Knowledge
"Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century."
Life
"Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could."
Determination
"I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time."
Time
"I have been driven demented in my career."
Career
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