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If both what is before and what is after are in this same “now,” things which happened ten thousand years ago would be simultaneous with what has happened today, and nothing would be before or after anything else.

—Aristotle, c. 330 BC

A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

—Jane Austen, 1814

Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.

—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BC

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

There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BC
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