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5/6/2024

 
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“If it weren’t for the last minute, a lot of things wouldn’t get done.” -Author Unknown
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Late
 
How did it get so late so soon?
     It’s night before it’s afternoon.
December is here before it’s June.
     My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?
 
By Dr. Seuss (pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904 - 1991))
 
Beverly: How is getting up at 4:00 a.m. like a pig’s tail?
Kimberly: It’s twirly!
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“Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.” -Denis Waitley (Denis Edwin Waitley, Senior (born 1933)) at https://deniswaitley.com/
 
“If I could have time in a bottle, I’d make it a glass bottle. That way, I could see the dinosaurs.” -Dick Bowden
 
“Time is eternity begun.” -James Montgomery (1771 - 1854): “A Mother’s Love,” stanza 8, line 6; type of work: poem
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“How you spend your hours equals who you are today.” -Stephen Bavolek (Stephen J. Bavolek)
 
Jonah: How many seconds are in a year?
Jonas: Twelve, starting with the second (2nd) of January.
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“It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.” -Dinah Craik (Dinah Maria Craik (born Dinah Maria Mulock (1826 - 1887))
 
There Was a Man
 
There was a man who never was.
     This tragedy occurred because
His parents, being none too smart,
     Were born two hundred years apart.
 
by Dennis Lee
 
“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it, you can never get it back.” -Harvey Mackay (Harvey B. Mackay (born 1932))
 
James: Where are you going?
Pauline: I’m going to the clock shop to buy some time.
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In the time a person says, “One hundred and one,” one second of time has passed.
 
Seymour: What time is it?
Rosemary: It is now.
 
Why do the hours drag on endlessly, while the years seem to fly past?
 
In 1984, the “Eldorado Daily Journal” newspaper of Illinois, United States of America, announced a contest to see who could save the most daylight for daylight savings time. The rules of the contest were simple: beginning with the first day of daylight savings time, contestants would be required to save daylight. Whoever succeeded in saving the most daylight would win. Only pure daylight would be allowed - no dawn or twilight light, though light from cloudy days would be allowed. Moonlight was strictly forbidden. Light could be stored in any container. The contest received a huge nationwide response. The paper’s editor was interviewed by correspondents from television news shows and was featured in papers around the country.
 
Overheard: She’s always late. Her ancestors arrived on the June Flower.
 
How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to release time: breathe.
-Matt Haig (born 1975)
 
“We all start out in life with one thing in common: we all have the same amount of time. It’s just a matter of what we do with it.” -Harvey Mackay (Harvey B. Mackay (born 1932))
 
Overheard: In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday.
Picture of a clock lying on the ground, partially covered by the green leaves of ivy plants, and the words, ‘Remember Time Lost Cannot Be Regained - Visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net.’
Lost time is gone forever? Look, we just found some discarded time! Whoo-hoo! Think of all the things we can do with it!
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“Those who know the value of time use it in preparation for eternity.” -Dugnet (also variously attributed to Duguet and Dugnat)
 
“Time devours all things.” [English translation]
“Tempus edax rerums.” [original Latin]
-Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso (43 B.C.E. - C.E. 17))
 
“Don’t say, ‘There’s still time,’ or ‘Maybe next time,’ because there’s also the concept of, ‘It’s too late.’” -Author Unknown
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“Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward offered, for they are gone forever.” -Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
 
Julianne: What time is it?
Julius: Early September in the year of our Lord 2021.
 
Chronophobia is a persistent fear of time. Perhaps at the root of this fear is yet another fear, a fear of having all of one’s most beautiful dreams going forever unrealized. Let’s do something about that today by getting started on dreams and goals and plans, even if only in the tiniest of ways, like writing them down on paper or typing them out on your computer, and re-reading them at the start of each day.
 
Bill: What time would it be if it were not the time it is now?
Tim: Some other time.
 
“Time is God’s way of keeping everything from happening at once.” -Havelock Ellis (Henry Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939))
 
“I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.” -Bernard Berenson (1865 - 1959)
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“The supply of time is a daily miracle. Each day twenty-four hours are given to us to do with as we wish. It is the most precious possession we have, so live it daily and take advantage of every opportunity.” -Author Unknown
 
“Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.” -Thomas Mann (Paul ‘Thomas’ Mann (1875 - 1955)): “The Magic Mountain” (1924), Chapter 5
 
“Time is a circus always packing up and moving away.” -Ben Hecht (1894 - 1964)
 
“All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.” -Baltasar Gracián (1601 - 1658)
 
Riddle: What flies without wings?
Solution: Time.
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“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” -Michael Altshuler at http://michaelaltshuler.com
 
“Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond.” -Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873))
 
Overheard: Just think, tomorrow at this same time, we will all be living exactly one day in the future . . .
 
“Time revealeth all things.” -Thomas Draxe (unknown - 1618)
 
“Each moment, as it passes, is the meeting place of two eternities.” -Madame Swetchine (Anne Sophie Swetchine (1782 - 1857))
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“By losing present time, we lose all time.” -W. Gurney Benham (William Gurney Benham (1859 - 1944))
 
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” -Charles Darwin (Charles Robert Darwin (1809 - 1882))
 
Time Facts
- 60 seconds make up a minute.
- 60 minutes make up an hour.
- 24 hours make up a day.
- 7 days make up a week.
- 28 to 31 days make up a month.
- 12 months make up a year.
- 10 years make up a decade.
- 100 years make up a century.
- 1,000 years make up a millennium.
- An infinite number of years make up an eternity.​
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“Time flies whether you’re having fun or not. The choice is yours.” -Author Unknown
 
“Lost time is never found again.” -John H. Aughey (John Hill Aughey (1828 - 1911))
 
Candace: What time is it?
Wallace: $682.99.
Candace: Your prices are really high.
Wallace: That’s because time is really valuable.
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Have you ever noticed that when someone says there is no more time, time pays no attention to what that person says and continues to flow right along as usual?
 
“Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don’t know if it even exists . . .” -Clifford D. Simak (Clifford Donald Simak (1904 - 1988)): “Shakespeare’s Planet” (1976)
 
“Time is like a snowflake - it melts away while we try to decide what to do with it.” -Author Unknown
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May memory restore again and again
     The smallest color of the smallest day:
Time is the school in which we learn,
     Time is the fire in which we burn.
-Delmore Schwartz (1913 - 1966): “Calmly We Walk Through This April’s Day” (1937), also found in Delmore Schwartz: “For Rhoda” (1938), stanza 1
 
“Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.” -Jim Bishop
 
“The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
 
“The time on either side of now stands fast.” -Maxine Kumin (born Maxine Winokur (1925 - 2014)) at https://maxinekumin.com/
 
“When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.” -Bette Midler (born 1945): as quoted in the “Jerusalem Post” (24 February 1989) newspaper
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“You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the magic tissue of the Universe of your life. No one can take it from you. No one receives either more or less than you receive. Waste your infinitely precious commodity as much as you will, and you cannot draw on the future. Impossible to get into debt. You can only waste the passing moment. You cannot waste tomorrow; it is kept for you.” -Arnold Bennett (Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867 - 1931))
 
“God hath given to man a short time here upon Earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.” -Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 1667): “Holy Living” (1650)
 
“Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.” -Samuel Smiles (1812 - 1904): “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct” (2009) page 389
 
“Time is not a reality, but a concept or a measure . . .” -Antiphon the Sophist (479 B.C.E. - 411 B.C.E.): “Truth”
 
“You will never have more time than you do right now.” -Author Unknown
 
More Time Facts
- According to the old English time system, a moment is one and a half minutes.
- A jiffy is an actual unit of time, equaling 1/100th of a second.
- A nanosecond is one billionth of a second.
- The smallest unit of time is a yoctosecond, or 1 septillionth of a second, being 10 to the power of negative 24.
- A million seconds is about 11 days.
- A billion seconds is about 31 years.
- 31,536,000 seconds is about one year.
- 168 hours are in a week.
 
“Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.JimRohn.com
 
“Time is not measured by clocks but by moments.” -Author Unknown
 
“Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.” -Art Buchwald (Arthur ‘Art’ Buchwald (1925 - 2007)): as quoted in “The Journal of the Oklahoma State Medical Association” (1979)
 
“Time eases all things.” -Sophocles (496 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.): “Oedipus Rex,” line 1515
 
Time Quiz
- What time is it?
- What time would you rather it be?
- Is it the same time for everybody?
- Does anybody really know what time it is?
- What is time?
- Do you have enough time?
- If you do not have enough time, where can you get some more?
- When people borrow some of your time, do they ever pay you back?
 
“Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler, and speaks even when not asked.” -Euripides (about 480 B.C.E. - about 406 B.C.E.): “Æolus,” Fragment 38
 
Tim: May I borrow some of your time?
Tom: Only if you promise to return it.
 
“There is only one time that is important - Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time that we have any power.” -Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910))
 
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” -J. R. R. Tolkien (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892 - 1973)): “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” (1954), words of character Gandalf
 
Wow, where did all the time go? Apparently, time flies when you are having fun! And, since that is all the time we have to cover the topic of Time, we will now go on to our next topic . . . on MFOL!


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