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Monday 22nd of July 2024
Afghanistan War
Marines in Afghanistan started telling
a joke about their enemy:
“We have the watches,” they'd say,
“but they have the time.”
citation
Phil Klay,
The Atlantic, May 2018
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By the numbers
Estimated ratio of time Trump spent
in intelligence briefings to golfing
during his presidency's first month:
1:4
Harper's Index, May 2017
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By the numbers
Perentage change in the length of time
someone can withstand pain
if they use profanity:
+34
Harper's Index, November 2017
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By the numbers
Percentage of Americans who spend
more than 90 percent of their lives
indoors or in vehicles:
92
Harper's Index, November 2017
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Capitalism
Remember that time is money.
Benjamin Franklin,
“Advice to a Young Tradesman”
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Manufacturing
The factory
is a device for making workmen hurry.
Aldous Huxley,
The Olive Tree
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Sex
Want to know why women
don't blink during foreplay?
Not enough time.
Joan Rivers
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Time
A broken clock is right once a day.
Rick Perry
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Time
Tempus Rerum Imperator
(Time, the Ruler of All Things)
Motto of
the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
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Time
This is the first thing
I have understood:
Time is the echo of an axe
Within a wood.
Philip Larkin, XXVI ‘This is the first thing’
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Time
Time flies like an arrow;
fruit flies like a banana.
Anonymous
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Time
Time makes more converts than reason.
Thomas Paine,
Common Sense
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Time
While you were out to lunch,
History passed by and Fame came knocking.
Secretary to her boss,
in a September 20, 1969, New Yorker cartoon
by Edward Koren
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Time
You have all the clocks,
we have all the time.
Taliban adage
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Waste of time
We will be asking my Republican friends
in Congress and states and cities and
counties to stand up, for God's sake.
Help prevent this concerted effort
to undermine our election and
the sacred right to vote.
Have you no shame?
Joe Biden, July 13, 2021
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Wretched excess
In Cabinet meeting, Pence
praises Trump once every
12 seconds for three
minutes straight
headline,
Washington Post, December 20, 2017
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