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My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.

—John Quincy Adams, 1844

Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.

—Simone Weil, 1947

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

—Frank Zappa, 1989

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

—Cormac McCarthy, 1992

Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.

—Ben Jonson, 1601
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