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Time Quotes
"Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold."
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"It was the first time I traveled alone, but I was not scared."
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"The value of time lies in its brevity. To use it effectively, you must know its value."
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"Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity."
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"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."
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"Kids are capable of handling a lot more than you think if you are willing to commit some time."
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"The moments of dA©jA vu were coming more frequently, now. Moments would stutter and hiccup and falter and repeat. Sometimes whole mornings would repeat. Once I lost a day. Time seemed to be breaking down entirely."
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"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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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
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"The past is the best prophet of the future."
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"I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule."
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"You may need an additional money to make things happen and have it, but you can have an additional time anywhere. Value your time; as you wait, it is passing!"
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"Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath, or as long as eternity."
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"We have time to accomplish the task."
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"More likely thoughts... and events than something else... after all yesterday it was a dream... already happen... tomorrow is the fucking dream as for "Now"... it is always now... If I am doing something else and I can control the direction... once finished as action... it cannot be changed."
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"My sister used to say I had a frail chest and she 'd beat me up all the time."
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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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"Unfulfilled needs makes training unfulfilled."
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"Time resumed. Time had a way of doing that."
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"One may sleep as long as one prefers, but one should know that each hour of excess sleep is an hour lost for learning."
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"Every past used to be a future once upon a time."
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"Someone who doesn't know if tomorrow will come would rather live every day twice than live it once."
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"I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!"
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"Life will follow the path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check its course; it will make no noise, it will not remind you of its swiftness. Silent it will glide on; it will not prolong itself at the command of a king, or at the applause of the populace. Just as it was started on its first day, so it will run; nowhere will it turn aside, nowhere will it delay."
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"But as Van casually directed the searchlight of backthought into that maze of the past where the mirror-lined narrow paths not only took different turns, but used different levels (as a mule-drawn cart passes under the arch of a viaduct along which a motor skims by), he found himself tackling, in still vague and idle fashion, the science that was to obsess his mature years - problems of space and time, space versus time, time-twisted space, space as time, time as space - and space breaking away from time, in the final tragic triumph of human cogitation: I am because I die."
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"You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?"
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"No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time."
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"The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time."
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