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Time Quotes
"And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time."
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"There is no more reason to think that they expected the world to remain static than there is to think that any of us holds a crystal ball. The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses."
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"In order to know the true situation of a Planet at any particular time, the small set of balls are to be put each on its respective axis; then the winch to be turned round until each index points to the given time."
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"The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions."
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"You know, you can't make someone love you again. No matter how much you might want it. Sometimes, unfortunately, the timing is simply... off."
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"I'm spoiled - in all ways. I've been in a rock 'n' roll band since I was 13, and we had incredible success. When it ended, it had been so good that I just looked at it as time to try something different."
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"If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time."
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"I once visited a village of primitive people.At village, I felt time and life moved slower."
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"The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it."
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"For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth."
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"When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say."
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"Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda."
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"The crew are the faces you see every morning and last at night before you go home. I spend more time with those people than I do with my friends and family, so they're forever a part of you and who you become as an actor so I hope I see them again."
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"The mind of man works with 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 by the timepiece of the mind by one second. This extraordinary discrepancy between time on the clock and time in the mind is less known than it should be, and deserves fuller investigation."
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"The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
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"That's the way I like it because there's no time to have nerves about it. You just run out and do it."
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"I've never made any effort to hide what happened. I served my time, I've tried to learn and move on."
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"The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich."
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"Every time that we've ever fought, we fought to keep from bein' destroyed. We've never started a war."
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"If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward."
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"The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours."
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"When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page."
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"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."
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"Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past."
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"Is it time uninterrupted? Only the present comprehended? Are our thoughts nothing but passing trains, no stops, devoid of dimension, whizzing by massive posters with repeating images? Catching a fragment from a window seat, yet another fragment from the next identical frame? If I write in the present yet digress, is that still real time? Real time, I reasoned, cannot be divided into sections like numbers on the face of a clock. If I write about the past as I simultaneously dwell in the present, am I still in real time? Perhaps there is no past or future, only the perpetual present that contains this trinity of memory."
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"The sand in the hourglass runs from one compartment to the other, marking the passage of moments with something constant and tangible.If you watch the flowing sand, you might see time itself riding the granules.Contrary to popular opinion, time is not an old white-haired man, but a laughing child.And time sings."
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"The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West."
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"I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time."
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"Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does."
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"It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day."
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