#duration

For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people. ↗

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

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(…) Real time is not a unitary strand distributing homogeneous units of past, present and future in a fixed empirical order, but is rather a complex, interactive, « thick » manifold of distinct yet integrated durations. p22 ↗

— Sanford Kwinter

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Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space. ↗

— John Joly

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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog. ↗

— Jennifer Haigh

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In my judgment, if we had pursued this course, the zones would have been of short duration. England would have been compelled to take her mines out of the North Sea in order to get any supplies from our country. ↗

— George William Norris

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Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit. ↗

— John Zimmerman

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From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war. ↗

— Richard Cobden

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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I demonstrated the characteristics of experimental fever. It appears after an incubation period which is never less than five days. It follows the same pattern as natural fever in man, but is of shorter duration and less pronounced. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

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