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"The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo." »Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
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"The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts." »Omar Bradley
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"We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. (on atomic energy)" »Albert Einstein
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"When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities." »Tom Robbins
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"The every-day cares and duties which men call drudgery are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of Time, giving its pendulum a true vibration, and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon the wheels, the pendulum no longer sways, the hands no longer move, the clock stands still." »Longfellow
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"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one." »Albert Einstein
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"Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do." »Albert Einstein
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"I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored." »Albert Einstein
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"Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day." »Polish Proverb
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"Ah! the clock is always slow;
It is later than you think." »Robert Service, Ballads of a Bohemian (1921)
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"Ah the clock is always slow It is later than you think." »Robert Service
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"Even a stopped clock is right two times a day." »Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do." »Jean-Paul Sartre
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"I must govern the clock, not be governed by it." »Golda Meir
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"Dont sit like a rock,work like a clock." »vani
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"Don't ever get your speedometer confused with your clock, like I did once, because the faster you go, the later you think you are." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again." »Bonnie Prudden
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"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock." »Pablo Picasso
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"My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day." »F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up." »William Hazlitt
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"Grade school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life." »John Rogers
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"People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking." »Steve Goodman
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"Death is much like an alarm clock
except there is never a snooze button
to give you just a moment more,
before you really have to wake." »Ronnie Rickner
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"We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery." »H. G. Wells
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"Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock." »Ben Hecht
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"He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion." »Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2
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"People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour." »Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 2
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"Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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"When the tea is brought at five o'clock And all the neat curtains are drawn with care, The little black cat with bright green eyes Is suddenly purring there." »Harold Monro
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