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> [“By creating and initiating things, we set relative time in motion, giving time a purpose and function under the heavens.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-harper/by-creating-and-initiating-things-we-set-relative-time-in-motion/)

[Oliver Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-harper/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4a/oliver-harper-32871_giving-time_by-creating-and-initiating-things-we-set_334918.jpg)

> [“He’d read once that the measure of an idea was how relative it was not only to its time, but beyond. His”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-berry/he-d-read-once-that-the-measure-of-an-idea-was-how-relative-it-was/)

[Steve Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-berry/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ed/steve-berry-10744_books_he-d-read-once-that-the-measure-of-an-id_429289.jpg)

> [Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-courbet/beauty-like-truth-is-relative-to-the-time-when-one-lives-and-to-the/)

[Gustave Courbet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustave-courbet/)

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> [“So in the physics of the heart, distance is relative; it's time that's absolute.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lois-mcmaster-bujold/so-in-the-physics-of-the-heart-distance-is-relative-it-s-time-that-s/)

[Lois McMaster Bujold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lois-mcmaster-bujold/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b0/lois-mcmaster-bujold-716_physics_so-in-the-physics-of-the-heart-distance_2030452.jpg)

> [Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mario-benedetti/five-minutes-are-enough-to-dream-a-whole-life-that-is-how-relative/)

[Mario Benedetti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mario-benedetti/)

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> [“Relativity, in our case, means that success is relative to the time frame you choose to measure it with. An hour? A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cate-east/relativity-in-our-case-means-that-success-is-relative-to-the-time/)

[Cate East](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cate-east/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58a/cate-east-85392_astrology_relativity-in-our-case-means-that-succes_2542516.jpg)

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