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"In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary."

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"In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary."

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"Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another."
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"Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave."
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"Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me."
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"I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received."
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"Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't."
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"Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature."

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"As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you."

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"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

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"All great achievements require time."

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"Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others."

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"Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."

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"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."

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"Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."

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"The years teach much which the days never know."

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"Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act."

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"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future."

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