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The Earth is slowing down. The Earth is spinning slower than it was when the international second was defined using atomic clocks, so we're losing time on those clocks.


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We may be making clocks that are more precise than time itself can be defined on Earth.
DANIEL KLEPPNER Of all the clocks on earth,which is correct?
ONIOSUN TEMIDAYO ISAIAH Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. I...
MARKUS ZUSAK It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
GEORGE ORWELL Clocks were invented to warn us. Tick (time is passing). Tock (time has passed).
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LESLIE MARMON SILKO I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.
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STEPHEN HAWKING The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
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Must Clocks be circles?
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LARRY DOSSEY I stood on the bridge at midnight, / As the clocks were striking the hour.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
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FLAVOR FLAV Just as it had before he faced the Horntail, time was slipping away as though somebody had bewitched...
J.K. ROWLING The problem with that is this building has really thick walls. The signal can't reach the clocks. We...
TONY WARNER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES They waited and watched, while the clocks seemed to resist time.
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OSAYI EMOKPAE LASISI A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, Geo...
DENNIS MILLER My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us cease...
MAX LERNER Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
THOMAS OTWAY A watched clock never tells the time
PROVERB If you fast forward your clocks to Dec. 31 of this year, you're going to have yet another year in wh...
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BRAD VAN DOMMELEN I barely have any clocks in my place, but I always have my cell phone with me,
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PAUL RUDD The first time the Deity came down to earth, he brought life and death; when he came the second time...
MARK TWAIN Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... She was and is (what can there more be said?) On earth the first, in heaven the second maid.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls its w...
ROBERT TREAT PAINE ...the hippies of the 1960s did understand something. They were right in fighting the plastic cultur...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER There are people who eat earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And ...
LILLIAN HELLMAN Elsewhere the world may be blustering or sleeping, wars are fought, people live and die, some nation...
MURIEL BARBERY For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first ph...
ROLAND BARTHES I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
GARRY SHANDLING Everyone on earth is afraid of losing his/her life, and only a few are afraid of losing their time.
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ROS BAXTER This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Lo...
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BRIAN SELZNICK Our time on Earth is so random.
LISA LING Descartes, in his Third Meditation, said that God re-created the body at each successive moment. So ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it?
...
No Face... a pe...
DEYTH BANGER [The Japanese] have their clocks down to the second; they're never late, so it's always very dependa...
CAROLYN LUND Death Laughs In The Faces Of Clocks
DEAN CAVANAGH Our astronauts, when they go orbiting around the earth, they actually come back slightly younger tha...
MICHIO KAKU At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are ob...
PETER M. LESCHAK All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are ob...
PETER M. LESCHAK All of us are watchers--of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway--but few are observ...
PETER M. LESCHAK So, I said, when does the enchantment start? We were sitting side by side, facing the mountains. "It...
JERRY SPINELLI The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
ROBERT INGERSOLL The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no ...
AGESILAUS THE SECOND I felt the turf course here was really great. On the far turn, it may have looked like she was reall...
BRICE BLANC When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars o...
LORD BYRON Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA The chance to do it over again is called now.
J.R. RIM Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the ca...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES I could go on and on telling you about clocks but I shall resist the temptation.
FRANK KING We now know a great deal about adolescent sleep. Biological clocks shift by two hours after puberty....
JODI MINDELL There are people out there whose computer clocks aren't set correctly, and those are issues that are...
JEFF BURKE Stop the earth from spinning, I want to get off!
ANONYMOUS Humans are the most intelligent creation on earth, according to all those that responded to the surv...
DAVID CHARLES BONSALL They don't understand American consumers or the market, and they don't understand mortgages. So when...
LOUIS DISIPIO What was gunpowder? Trivial. What was electricity? Meaningless. The atomic bomb is the Second Coming...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I am getting old, so I really don't like clocks.
JAMES ROSENQUIST Titan Marathon clocks are a reflection and recognition of the spirit of the large number of particip...
JAVAGAL SRINATH If you think of the Apollo capsule coming into Earth with a parachute, the Mars atmosphere is just s...
ELLEN STOFAN If anyone was put on this earth to fulfill the role of ambassador, defined as the 'highest ranking d...
BOYD PALMER It has been precisely 55 years since one single atomic bomb created a hell on Earth,
TADATOSHI AKIBA I stood on the bridge at midnight, As the clocks were striking the hour, And the moon rose ove...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW It is very unusual for the International Atomic Energy Agency to vote on a decision, so the adoption...
HAMID-REZA ASEFI I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth af...
ZACK SNYDER Each time he documented, you could tell it was getting worse. Later on down the note, he said that i...
ANN MERIDETH Man is the cruelest animal," says Zarathustra. "When gazing at tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixation...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seein...
BILL NYE But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime:'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conq...
W. H. AUDEN The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -R. G. Ingersoll.
R. G. INGERSOLL It just falls off the table. It was like one of those Bugs Bunny moments when I was just spinning ar...
AUBREY HUFF I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.
HENRY FORD When no one is watching Mother Earth, and most of the time no one is, she sings softly to herself. <...
SHARON WEIL Unlike clocks, hours have no reverse motion..
ANONYMOUS At a time when the Post Office is losing substantial revenue from the instantaneous flow of informat...
BERNIE SANDERS Changing the asteroid's velocity changes the time when the asteroid crosses Earth's orbit. A...
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TERRY PRATCHETT One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than...
TERRY PRATCHETT It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.
TERRY PRATCHETT Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
TERRY PRATCHETT This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.
TERRY PRATCHETT If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.
TERRY PRATCHETT Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.
TERRY PRATCHETT Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility.
TERRY PRATCHETT ...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
TERRY PRATCHETT We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.
TERRY PRATCHETT His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans --...
TERRY PRATCHETT Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
TERRY PRATCHETT Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
TERRY PRATCHETT DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.
TERRY PRATCHETT It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Li...
TERRY PRATCHETT Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some ...
TERRY PRATCHETT Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his lif...
TERRY PRATCHETT Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—species...
TERRY PRATCHETT Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you have to look alon...
TERRY PRATCHETT Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the mus...
TERRY PRATCHETT Don't worry, it's not loaded.
TERRY KATH Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
TERRY PRATCHETT To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darknes...
TERRY PRATCHETT Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and...
TERRY PRATCHETT No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and hom...
TERRY PRATCHETT "I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"<...
TERRY PRATCHETT Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended....
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