"There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment."

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"There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment."

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"It was always me and the other guy. I came in second for a long time."

Joel Gretsch, American Actor

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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

Evita Peron, Argentinian Statesman

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"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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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."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work."

Karl Kraus, Austrian Writer

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"Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet."

Chris Brown, American Musician

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"Time is running out to permeate the piece."

Tommy Tune, American Dancer

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"We have not the time to take our time."

Eugene Ionesco, French Dramatist

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"No money can buy back the moment that is gone"

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Laws are silent in time of war."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life."

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"I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism."

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"In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets."

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"We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends."

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