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• The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife.

  Jose Saramago

  Morning, Writing, Men

  "Portuguese writer Jose Saramago, winner of 1998 Nobel, dies". www.cnn.com. June 18, 2010.

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• I always said that in a country where a legislature, its sessions limited by statute, could alter reality by turning back the clock (I actually saw this done, once, with a long pole pushing on the hour hand), any travesty was possible. I see nothing lately to prove me wrong.

  L. Neil Smith

  Country, Reality, Hands

  "The Pot and the Kettle". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 21, 2010.

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• Time is running out for us But you just move the hands upon the clock You throw coins in the wishing well For us You just move your hands upon the wall

  Thom Yorke

  Running, Wall, Moving

  Song: The Clock, 2009

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• At the end of the season of sorrows comes the time of rejoicing. Spring, like a well-oiled clock, noiselessly indicates this time.

  Roger Zelazny

  Spring, Sorrow, Ends

  Roger Zelazny (2009). “Threshold”, Nesfa Press

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• How many voices have escaped you until now, the venting furnace, the floorboards underfoot, the steady accusations of the clock numbering the minutes no one will mark. The terrible clarity this moment brings, the useless insight, the unbroken dark.

  Dana Gioia

  Dark, Voice, Unbroken

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.14, Macmillan

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• The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works too much, or it can be an alarm clock.

  Kelly Link

  Men, Evil, Too Much

  Kelly Link, Shelley Jackson (2005). “Magic for Beginners”, p.76, Small Beer Press

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• I have nowhere to go. The swift satellites show The clock of my whole being is slow.

  R. S. Thomas

  Nowhere To Go, Satellites, Shows

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “R. S. Thomas: Everyman Poetry: Everyman's Poetry”, p.62, Hachette UK

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• The city might be savage, stray dogs might share the streets with grimy urchins whose blank eyes reflected the knowledge that they might soon be covered over, blinded forever, by the same two pennies just begged from some gentleman, and no one in the fuming, fulminous boulevards of trade might know who actually ran Ambergris-or, if anyone ran it at all, but, like a renegade clock, it ran on and wound itself heedless, empowered by the insane weight of its own inertia, the weight of its own citizenry.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Dog, Eye, Cities

  Jeff Vandermeer (2007). “City of Saints and Madmen”, p.65, Spectra

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• Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can about his business, suffering quietly, martyr to his madness. Much to learn.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Fire, Self

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• It is June. This is what I have decided to do with my life just now. I will do this work and lead this life, the one I am leading today. Each morning the blue clock and the crocheted bedspread, the table with the Phone, the books and magazines, the Times at the door.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Morning, Book, June

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• I don't like to dwell on the past. I'm interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I'm trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.

  Bobby Fischer

  Past, Thinking, Years

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• History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell there political and cultural time of day. It is also a compass that people use to find themselves on the map of human geography. History tells a people where they have been and what they have been, where they are and what they are. Most important, history tells a people where they still must go, what they still must be. The relationship of history to the people is the same as the relationship of a mother to her child.

  Dr. John

  Mother, Children, People

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• We lost the skyline
  We stepped right off the map
  Drifted into black space
  And let the clocks relapse.

  Steven Wilson

  Space, Black, Skylines

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• Our awareness of time affects how we think and act. This is illustrated by the story about the clock in a restaurant window. It "had stopped a few minutes past noon. One day a friend asked the owner if he knew the clock was not running. 'Yes,' replied the restaurant man, 'but you would be surprised to know how many people look at that clock, think they are hungry, and come in to get something to eat."' If only there were some kind of divine timepiece that would arouse a spiritual hunger in people!

  James E. Faust

  Running, Spiritual, Past

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• When I go out clubbing I can dance 'til three o'clock in the morning with just a water bottle in my hand. I love dancing to anything with a good beat really. My favorite song to dance to at the moment is probably Drake's 'Best I Ever Had'.

  Jordin Sparks

  Inspirational, Dance, Song

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• There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once.

  James Joyce

  Spiritual, Writing, Cities

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• So, when kiss Spring comes
  we'll kiss each kiss other on kiss the kiss
  lips because tic clocks tock don't make
  a toctic difference
  to kisskiss you and to
  kiss me.

  e. e. cummings

  Spring, Kissing, Differences

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• Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to pair up and moan and writhe.

  Steven Pinker

  Sex, Fear, Animal

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• A professor was telling students about his colleagues class. Students in the other class had taken to tossing erasers at the clock. Each precise hit caused it to jump ahead one minute. Before class one morning they succeeded in advancing the clock by ten minutes. Since the new time indicated that the professor was beyond the accepted starting time, the class left. The professor never said a word about the incident. However, he presented the class with a killer of a final exam. As the students labored to finish in the allotted time, the professor amused himself by tossing erasers at the clock.

  Vicki Davis

  Time, Morning, Taken

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• Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you,
  Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you.
  Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught,
  Be your own man; don't be borrowed, don't be bought.

  Heavy D

  Rap, Men, Self

  Song: We Got Our Own Thang

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• Lyrics are weak, like clock radio speakers.

  GZA

  Rap, Hip Hop, Radio

  Song: Liquid Swords, Album: Liquid Swords

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• Uh oh, it's beer o'clock, I think I'm sober.
  How about we think this over, over a can of King Cobra?

  Daniel Dumile

  Kings, Rap, Beer

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• Today in America, unions have a secure place in our industrial life. Only a handful of reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of breaking unions and depriving working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice. I have no use for those - regardless of their political party - who hold some vain and foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when organized labor was huddled, almost as a hapless mass. Only a fool would try to deprive working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Dream, Party, Men

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• The early commitments, early recruiting, that had changed. The whole clock is pushed ahead and you have to make decisions earlier about who to and who not to recruit. Is that a good thing I'm not sure, but it is reality.

  Kirk Ferentz

  Commitment, Reality, Decision

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• I am grateful to learn from their mistakes, because I am not injecting s- into my face. I see them and my heart breaks. I think, 'Oh God, if you only know how much older you look.' They are trying to stop the clock and all you can see is an insecure person who won't let themselves just age. I also have a fiancé who will put a gun to my head if I touch my face in any way.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Mistake, Grateful, Heart

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