Quotes with past-time

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  • Bill James Bunting is usually a waste of time. The - generally, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, bunt is the only play in baseball that both sides applaud. The - if the home team bunts, you get a base. The home team applauds because they get an out, and the other team applauds because they get a base. So what does that tell you?
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Laurence J. Peter Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
    Laurence J. Peter
    Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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  • Billy Joe Saunders But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.
    Billy Joe Saunders
    English professional boxer (1989 - )
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  • Andrew Marvell But at my back I always hear time's winged chariot hurrying near.
    Andrew Marvell
    English poet, satirist and politician (1621 - 1678)
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  • Angela Davis But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali But I believe that the DPKO at this time was very much involved with American administration and was acting, taking on consideration the demand or the recommendation of the American administration. American administration was very powerful.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Bryan Ferry But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Aristotle But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Birch Bayh But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and make a reasonable living without having to be on an airplane all of the time, then you ought to go back home and run for School Board.
    Birch Bayh
    American politician (1928 - 2019)
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  • Alfred de Vigny But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Aldous Huxley But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.
    Lunar Park (2010) 204
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Aeschylus But time growing old teaches all things.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Bob Schieffer But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Carol Loomis By late 1953, going to New York on vacation, I had lined up several Time Inc. interviews - and what they did was give me a lifelong appreciation of the importance of luck in getting a job.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Dan Cruickshank By Modernism I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change, in novelty for its own sake, in the idea that progress through time equates with cultural progress; in the cult of individuality, originality and self-expression.
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  • Buzz Aldrin By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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