“For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.”
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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Tom Stoppard116
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“Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.”
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Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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Source: On the sociology of Islam: lectures. (1979), p. 97; partly cited in: John L. Esposito (1996) Islam and Democracy. p. 25.
“All men can fly, but sadly, only in one direction.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Orhan Pamuk (1952) Turkish novelist, screenwriter, and Nobel Prize in Literature recipient
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“Strictly speaking, there are no "measurements" in the world, only correlations.”
Nick Herbert (1936) American physicist
Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 9, Four Quantum Realities, p. 174
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Quote in a letter of Vincent to brother Theo, from The Hague, between c. 13 and c. 18 December 1882; as cited in Dear Theo: the Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh; ed. Irving Stone and Jean Stone, (1995) p. 181 - ISBN 0452275040
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“The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.”
Thomas Ligotti book Songs of a Dead Dreamer
Source: Songs of a Dead Dreamer
Margaret Thatcher book Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World
Source: Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World, p. 324