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...knowing what o'clock it is gives ye the illusion that ye have some control over your circumstance...

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Diana GabaldonWritten in My Own Heart's Blood

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over wi...

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Through learning at my later date things I hadn't known, or had escaped or possibly feared realizing...

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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they p...

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Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes....

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But what is this clock, marking only so many years, that such men seem to consult in the dark of the...

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I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in ...

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Mathematicians call it “the arithmetic of congruences.” You can think of it as clock arithmetic. Tem...

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John DerbyshirePrime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics

Time in itself, absolutely, does not exist; it is always relative to some observer or some object. W...

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I marketed pens - on the phone. But the beauty of the gig was that you had to call these strangers a...

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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Montag shook his head. He looked at a blank wall. The girl's face was there, really quite beautiful ...

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

Then there are those who think their bodies don't exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at ...

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I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this ...

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When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. T...

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Dear God . . . the dread hour is nigh." - Jace Wayland

The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike