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Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, Lady, were no crime.
		- Andrew Marvell, To his Coy Mistress

Gosh that takes me back... or is it forward?  That's the trouble with
time travel, you never can tell.
		- Doctor Who, Androids of Tara


H}vard Fosseng

                       THOUGHTS ON TIME ITSELF

  I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that
  they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
                                                         -Alan Watts

  Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.  I drink at it; but while
  I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.  Its
  thin current slides away, but eternity remains.  I would drink
  deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars.  I
  cannot count one.  I know not the first letter of the alphabet.  I
  have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was
  born.                                          -Henry David Thoreau

  As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
                                                 -Henry David Thoreau
 
  As if you could TELL time without injuring eternity.  -Matthew Ryan

  Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead.  
  It is going on all the time.  We are in it now. -Charlotte P Gilman


		      THOUGHTS ON TIME WELL SPENT

  There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, 
  when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it
  time well spent.                                         -Montaigne

  People find life entirely too time-consuming.     -Stanislaw J. Lec
 
  Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time 
  we have rushed through life trying to save.            -Will Rogers

  If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly 
  useless manner, you have learned how to live.           -Lin Yutang



These words have been collected in communicative desperation by a
fellow who's been wandering through life with a certian intuitive
wariness: he knows that time itself, the embodiment of our
ongoingness, is darn diffucult to touch or even approach with our own
deeply time-grounded concepts.  He has nothing clear to say, but
perhaps he has imparted his deep impression that somehow, somewhere -
something is the matter.


-Matt Ryan, "I seem to be a verb." -Buckminster Fuller, 
mb-ryan@uchicago.edu                Curious Of All Natures
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If I'm dreaming, never let me wake. You'll never see the end of the road
If I'm awake, never let me sleep.   When you're traveling with me.
               -old chinese fellow                        -Crowded House     
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In article <1993Jan22.042110.18823@midway.uchicago.edu> mbr2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>
>  People find life entirely too time-consuming.     -Stanislaw J. Lec
> 

Hate to be pedantic and waste everyones time, but shouldn't that be 
Stanislaw J. Lem ? (c is a long way from m on my keyboard.)

--
Julien.

>  	Any Quotes on TIME out there? 

"Time is an illusion.  Lunchtime doubly so."
						Ford Prefect (HHGttG)

In article <1993Jan22.150236.12352@nrao.edu> julien@scs.leeds.ac.uk (J C Flack) writes:
>  but shouldn't [Stanislaw J. Lec] be 
>   Stanislaw J. Lem ? (c is a long way from m on my keyboard.)

No, and the J is for Jerzy.  

You think maybe there is only one Pole in the world?
--

   Nihil tam absurde dici potest, quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosophorum.
Mark-Jason Dominus 	  			    mjd@central.cis.upenn.edu 

In article <13j34=g@rpi.edu> ungsur@rpi.edu writes:
>Keywords: 
>
>
>  	Any Quotes on TIME out there? 
>

"You can't make a baby in one month, even if you make nine women pregnant."
	--A scientist who's name I couldn't remember by the time I got near 
	  some paper

"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want."
	Calvin from "Calvin and Hobbes" by Bill Watterson

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In <1993Jan23.203349.10761@news.acns.nwu.edu> weasel@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Mike Rosenberg) writes:

>In article <13j34=g@rpi.edu> ungsur@rpi.edu writes:
>>Keywords: 
>>
>>
>>  	Any Quotes on TIME out there? 
>>

My favorite TIME quote (lyric) here is by THE _Pink Floyd_ :

	Ticking away the moments that make up a dog day,
	You fritter away the hours in an off-hand way,
	Turning around on a piece of ground in your hometown,
	Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.

Of course, the whole song (_Time_) has some great lines on TIME!

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In article <13j34=g@rpi.edu> ungsur@rpi.edu writes:
>
>    Any Quotes on TIME out there?

     "Time
      Keeps flowing like a river
      Time
      Beckoning me
      Who knows when we shall meet again?
      If ever?
      But time
      Keeps flowing like a river
      (On and on)
      To the sea, to the sea
      'Till it's gone forever
      Gone forever
      Gone forever-more"

                         -- Alan Parsons Project

     (This goes much better with the music)


                                        Steve
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-- 
    Steve Casburn (scasburn@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
     "It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done.
      It is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
                          --Sydney Carton, "Tale of Two Cities"

In article <1993Jan23.203349.10761@news.acns.nwu.edu> 
	weasel@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Mike Rosenberg) writes:

>"You can't make a baby in one month, even if you make nine women pregnant."
>	--A scientist who's name I couldn't remember by the time I got near 
>	  some paper

Werner Von Braun -- "Crash programs fail because they are based on the
premise that, with nine women pregnant, you'll get a baby in a month"
-- 
Michael Sierchio                               TRW Financial Systems
kudzu@tfs.com                                     1947 Center Street
                                             Berkeley, CA 94704-1105
(MKS2)                                               +1 510 704 3380

Here is one for a song by Don McLean (American Pie fame) that I have
always liked:

You know I've heard about people like me,
But I never made the connection,
They walk one road to set them free,
and find they've gone the wrong direction,
but there's no need for turning back,
for all roads lead to where I stand,
and I believe I've walked them all,
no matter what I may have planned.