"Time is what prevents everything from happening at…" — John Archibald Wheeler

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• A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving… — Emily Bronte
• My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
• The Greeks had two words for time. Chronos is the time we usually keep an eye on. Kairos was our… — Jean Shinoda Bolen
• We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is… — Carlo Rovelli
• Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations. — Cyril Connolly
• Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so… — William Penn
• Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time. — Henry Ward Beecher
• The wounds were burning like suns at five in the afternoon, and the crowd broke the windows At five in… — Federico Garcia Lorca
• We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful… — John Zerzan
• The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker… — Jonathan Carroll
• Time is that which is manufactured by clocks. — Hermann Bondi

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