#passes

My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it. ↗

— Julian Barbour

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It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

#down #entirely #false #generation #illusion

It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy. ↗

— Marian Burros

#beef #done #get #gravy #hold

If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#become #come #concern #concerned #continued

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure. ↗

— Steve Earle

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Some people may get in to the building without the proper passes and things, but I think that's the price you pay for being an open place for people to come. ↗

— Margo MacDonald

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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time. ↗

— Ovid

#away #fragile #ice #like #passes

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#everything #falsehood #little #passes #spoken

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing. ↗

— Philip Roth

#even #know #knowing #more #passes

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that. ↗

— Gillian Anderson

#day #every #everyone #good #good day