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"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal 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 on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

"Time is inexplicable because it moves " clicks away " at steady increments, while increasing the past and bringing the future into the present. Time has a necessary affinity with both heaven and the earthly reality. 'Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it is the soul of the world.' Plato said that time and heaven must be coexistent. Without time nothing can be created or generated in the universe, nor is anything intelligible without eternity. Time is no accident or affection, but the cause, power, and principle of the symmetry and order that confines all created beings, by which the animated nature of the universe moves."

"A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time."

"Twelve minutes. I can give you that."
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"One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream."

"The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality."

"Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong."

"Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates."
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