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Desmond Morris

"This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones."

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"This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones."

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Amber Hurdle

"The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself."

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"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."

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"But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality, has no such simple effect upon the mind of man. 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."

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"Time, motion and wine cause sleep."

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Amber Hurdle

"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time."

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Amber Hurdle

"The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot."

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Amber Hurdle

"In time of war the laws are silent."

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Amber Hurdle

"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."

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Amber Hurdle

"Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely."

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