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«We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.»
Author: Max Lerner
(Columnist, Politician)
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Clocks
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ceaselessly, chronology, clock, Dead Man, decades, dry, dry run, dry season, internal, motions, outer, rate, run dry, run on, The Tick, tick, ticking, ticks, timekeeper
«When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space»
Author: Veda Upanishads
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cheerfully, Dead Man, hearing, land of the dead, quarters, The Land, The Voice
«To bring the dead to life / Is no great magic. / Few are wholly dead: / Blow on a dead man's embers / And a live flame will start.»
«Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.»
«REFUGE, n. Anything assuring protection to one in peril. Moses and Joshua provided six cities of refuge --Bezer, Golan, Ramoth, Kadesh, Schekem and Hebron --to which one who had taken life inadvertently could flee when hunted by relatives of the deceased. This admirable expedient supplied him with wholesome exercise and enabled them to enjoy the pleasures of the chase; whereby the soul of the dead man was appropriately honored by observations akin to the funeral games of early Greece.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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admirable, akin, appropriately, assuring, Dead Man, expedient, Golan, Greece, honored, hunted, inadvertently, Kadesh, peril, Ramoth, The Chase, The Dead Man
«The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know t»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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alien, Dead Man, finest, fine art, fine arts, germ, germs, herein, man of science, mystic, mystics, T, The Finest, The Germ, wonderment
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