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• Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.

  Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
  French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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• Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

  Virgil
  Roman poet (70 - 19)
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• Thus every Part was full of Vice,
  Yet the whole Mass a Paradise;
  Flatter'd in Peace, and fear'd in Wars,
  They were th' Esteem of Foreigners,
  And lavish of their Wealth and Lives,
  The Balance of all other Hives.

  The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 155, p. 9

  Bernard Mandeville
  British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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• Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.

  Maxwell Maltz
  American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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• Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids - without any social relevance or human responsibility at all.

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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• Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.

  Arthur Henderson
  British Labour politician
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• Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  American poet (1807 - 1882)
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• Time brings all things to pass.

  Aeschylus
  Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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• Time does not heal all wounds; there are those that remain painfully open.

  A Jew Today (1978)

  Elie Wiesel
  Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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• Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted déjà vu.

  Florence King
  American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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• Time is a storm in which we are all lost.

  W. Williams
   
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• Time is that in which all things pass away.

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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• Time is the devourer of all things.

  Ovid
  Roman poet (43 - 17)
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• Time is the justice that examines all offenders.

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

  Pericles
   
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• Time is the wisest of all counselors.

  Plutarch
  Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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• Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

  Anita Brookner
  British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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• Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

  Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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• Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

  Euripides
  Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• narrow-shouldered
• responsibility
• american-style
• imagination
• composition
• copyrighted

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