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Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face. — Jean Baudrillard
If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as you say. I… — H.G. Wells
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it… — Walter Benjamin
You say that love is nonsense. I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an… — Henry Adams
I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The… — Eric Schmidt
I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources… — Tony Robbins
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels,… — Charles Dickens
No, My son, the evolutionists are not right. I created all of this-all of this-in the blink of an eye; in one holy instant-just as… — Neale Donald Walsch
On every birthday, I ask my wife, 'What would you like this year?' and her instant reply is, 'Diamonds! Diamonds! Diamonds!' I'm always living in… — Akshay Kumar
Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you have it: instant… — Malcolm Cowley
One would have to say "in the end everything is a gag, etc" because everything is infinitely more than just a gag. The same applies… — Alfred Korzybski
What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language. — Miuccia Prada
Fashion is instant language. — Miuccia Prada
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this… — Eileen Caddy
News is virtual now. It is not 24-hour news cycles; it is instant news cycles. It is live. News is live all the time, around… — Mark McKinnon
One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can… — Jacqueline Leo
There are so many cameras. There is so much instant media attention, not just for celebrities, but for normal people that get thrust in the… — Lorenzo Lamas
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about… — Edgar Mitchell
I made an instant connection with boxing right away. Boxing became such a part of me. I ate boxing, I slept boxing, I lived boxing.… — Sugar Ray Leonard
Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people. — Vint Cerf
In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge… — Bat for Lashes
The scriptures record remarkable accounts of men whose lives changed dramatically, in an instant, as it were: Alma the Younger, Paul on the road to… — Ezra Taft Benson
In the Internet world, especially in Silicon Valley, everyone is at the ready all the time, and turnaround is relatively short, if not instant. — Chad Hurley
I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in perpetual contact with their constituents. The electorate now has instant… — P.J. O'Rourke

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