The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910
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A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
—Jane Austen, 1814Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.
—Johannes Kepler, 1605We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.
—Karl Marx, 1847