- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time Quotes
Quotes marking moments across time.
This page brings together quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family. It pairs well with Family Quotes for related reflections.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.
- Change Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we could, we'd change a lot of things. But the only thing that's going to really change things is money and time. And time might just make it worse, too.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.
- Critically
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
- Loyalty
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.
- Fools
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020