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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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"Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade" »Benjamin Franklin
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"Loyalty is still the same,Whether it win or lose the gameTrue as a dial to the sun,Although it be not shined upon." »Samuel Butler
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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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"Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far, I had a good day. I got a dial tone." »Rodney Dangerfield
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"It seemed to me that, somehow, the blue jay was trying to communicate with me. I would see him fly into the house across the way, pick up the telephone, and dial. My phone would ring, and it would be him, but it was just this squawking and cheeping. 'What What' I would yell back, but he never did speak English." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Gun control has not worked in D.C. The only people who have guns are criminals. We have the strictest gun laws in the nation and one of the highest murder rates. It's quicker to pull your Smith & Wesson than to dial 911 if you're being robbed." »Lowell Duckett
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"Ah the clock is always slow It is later than you think." »Robert Service
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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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"Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day." »Polish Proverb
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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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"Even a stopped clock is right two times a day." »Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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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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"You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again." »Bonnie Prudden
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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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"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock." »Pablo Picasso
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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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"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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"People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking." »Steve Goodman
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"Grade school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life." »John Rogers
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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