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"What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know."

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint
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"What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know."

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"Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point."
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"O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet."
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"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."
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"Love is the beauty of the soul."
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"It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr."
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"We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain."
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"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
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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."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman
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"All great achievements require time."

Maya Angelou, American Poet
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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."

Jim Rohn, American Businessman
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"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman
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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."

William Faulkner, American Novelist
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"The years teach much which the days never know."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet
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"Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist
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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."

William Wordsworth, English Poet
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