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Time, Reality, Proverbs


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It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account.

- Hofstadter's Law

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A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.

- Segal's Law

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When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

- Marcel Achard

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A loafer always has the correct time.

- Kin Hubbard

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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

- Hector Berlioz

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Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

- John Archibald Wheeler

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Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

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Reality

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

- Albert Einstein

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It ain't necessarily so.

- Gershwin's Law

Proverbs

Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.

- William Jennings Bryan

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Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.

- Samuel Palmer

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

 

George Bernard Shaw

 

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