“Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.”
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“How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.”
“I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.”
“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
“All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.”
“Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.”
“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.”
“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.”
“Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.”
“I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.”
“Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.”
“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.”
“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
“I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.”
“If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”
“You may delay, but time will not.”
“Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.”
“Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.”
“The time I kill is killing me.”
“Time brings all things to pass.”
“I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.”
“Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.”
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”