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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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."
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"I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast."
Thought
"I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed."
Reading
"I never worked in an office in my life."
Life
"I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet."
Movies
"This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late."
Life
"I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book."
Writing
"But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me."
Books
"I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do."
Time
"I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell."
Writing
"These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything."
Reading
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