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- From: mbr2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Curious Of All Natures)
- Subject: Thoughts on Time
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:21:10 GMT
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- THOUGHTS ON TIME ITSELF
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- I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that
- they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
- -Alan Watts
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- Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while
- I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its
- thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink
- deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I
- cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I
- have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was
- born. -Henry David Thoreau
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- As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
- -Henry David Thoreau
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- As if you could TELL time without injuring eternity. -Matthew Ryan
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- Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead.
- It is going on all the time. We are in it now. -Charlotte P Gilman
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- THOUGHTS ON TIME WELL SPENT
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- There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time,
- when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it
- time well spent. -Montaigne
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- People find life entirely too time-consuming. -Stanislaw J. Lec
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- Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time
- we have rushed through life trying to save. -Will Rogers
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- If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly
- useless manner, you have learned how to live. -Lin Yutang
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- These words have been collected in communicative desperation by a
- fellow who's been wandering through life with a certian intuitive
- wariness: he knows that time itself, the embodiment of our
- ongoingness, is darn diffucult to touch or even approach with our own
- deeply time-grounded concepts. He has nothing clear to say, but
- perhaps he has imparted his deep impression that somehow, somewhere -
- something is the matter.
-
-
- -Matt Ryan, "I seem to be a verb." -Buckminster Fuller,
- mb-ryan@uchicago.edu Curious Of All Natures
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- If I'm dreaming, never let me wake. You'll never see the end of the road
- If I'm awake, never let me sleep. When you're traveling with me.
- -old chinese fellow -Crowded House
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