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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. – Saint Augustine

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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed… And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. – Saint Augustine

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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. – Saint Augustine

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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. – Napoleon I, Maxims, 1815

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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep. – Walt Whitman

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We must use time as a tool, not as a couch. – John F. Kennedy

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