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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

—Frank Zappa, 1989

My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.

—John Quincy Adams, 1844

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.

—Charles Lamb, 1810
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