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A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.


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Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were.



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Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.



Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.

Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.



The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.

The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.



What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.

What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.



What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.



But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?

But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?





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This page presents the quote "A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.". Author of this quote is Susan Glaspell. This quote is about time, clock, machines, littles, wonder,.