"Time elaborately thrown away."

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“An undevout astronomer is mad.”

“How blessings brighten as they take their flight!”

“In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.”

“A friend is worth all hazards we can run.”

“To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.”

“Virtue alone has majesty in death.”

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"When the rate of change increases to the point that real time required to assimilate change exceeds the time in with change must be manifest, the enterprise is going to find itself in deep yogurt."

— John Zachman

Business1934

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"Play us a tune on an unbroken spinet, and let the bells ring, let the bells ring! Play music now: play us a tune on an unbroken spinet. Do not make echoes of forgotten time, do not strike music from o…"

— Thomas Wolfe

Literature1900–1938

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"they cudgel their brains with absurd questions, such as, for instance, why God did not make the world many centuries earlier. They persuade themselves that it is easy to conceive, to be sure, how God …"

— Immanuel Kant

Philosophy1724–1804

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"The time has come for a wholly new approach to economic policy in Britain. The overriding need is for a long-term stabilisation programme to defeat inflation, recreate business confidence and provide …"

— Nigel Lawson

Politics1932–2023

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