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"time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time." »Robin Green
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"Confusion is always the most honest response." »Marty Indik
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"Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane." »Philip K. Dick, Valis
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"Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die." »F. Forrester Church
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"Grief is a normal healthy response to loss" »The Omani Shed
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"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts." »Nikki Giovanni
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"I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe in God or not). So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life." »Malcolm Boyd
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"What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge" »Bette Greene
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"Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created." »Anonymous
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"A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept." »D. H. Lawrence
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"The Islamic Republic is proud to be the target of the rage of the world's greatest Satan. in response to George W. Bush's assertion of Iran as part of an axis of evil" »Ayatullah Khamenei
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"If I am to die, this is the week for it. -- John F. Kennedy (to aide John McClone in response to a CIA report about rumours of an assassination plot), June 1962." »John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]
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"Well, Mr. Secretary, I lived in a house without electricity too. No running water, no telephone...I can stand toe-to-toe with you. in response to Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill" »Robert C. Byrd
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"Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart." »Bill Chickering
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"The right time was at the crossroads With a future in his plans The wrong time reapproaches With right time's suitcase in hand The right time asks, how 's the journey The wrong time said the 'whether' turned me around. The right time, shakes his head, Shakes his hand and leaves Before the sun goes down." »Unknown
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"Principal Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul." »Billy Madison
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"Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health." »Gloria Steinem
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"But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely." »Charles Dickens
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"Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society." »Edward C. Banfield
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"We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. time to be." »Gladys Taber
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"Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary." »Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Mentat Fixe
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"You urge time when you are expecting your salary, you urge time when you want to meet your beloved, you urge time when you wish to see your children grow up. And when time is urged, you astonishly exclaim! Maybe this is the true theory of relativity.." »The wise Pharoah Moe
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"There is a time to be timid. There is a time to be conciliatory. There is a time, even, to fly and there is a time to fight. And I'm going to fight like hell. (On Congressional moves toward impeachment)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values." »Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over." »Gloria Naylor
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"The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved." »Will Rogers
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"time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering." »Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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"time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of time and is forgotten through the lapse of time." »Aristotle
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"time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of time and is forgotten through the lapse of time." »Aristotle, Physics
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