#interval

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. ↗

I really had to think and learn about musical intervals. ↗

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

#between #confusion #constitutes #decay #error

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. ↗

— Georges Clemenceau

#barbarism #civilization #degeneration #directly #gone

Cents are the most universally used interval measure. ↗

— Alexander John Ellis

#interval #measure #most #universally #used

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#been #ever #except #great #great work

I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals. ↗

— William Allen White

#bored #every #fairly #get #glamorous

So get accomplished what you want to get accomplished in your life. And in the intervals, do what you can to help other people. ↗

— Sean Hayes

#get #help #intervals #life #other

Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping forever through time: the rupture between past and future: the gap at the poles of the revolving magnetic field, infinitesimally small but ultimately real. It is the interchronic pause when nothing is happening. It is the void between events. ↗

— George Kubler

#interval #renewal #sunyata #the-shape-of-time #time

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. ↗

— George Santayana

#cure #death #enjoy #interval #save

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