“[T]ime is much more elastic than our intuition of this rigid passage... The time interval between one point and another... depends on where you are.”
Carlo Rovelli: The nature of time (Apr 10, 2020)
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William Howard Taft (1857–1930) American politician, 27th President of the United States (in office from 1909 to 1913)
Source: Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (Columbia University Press, 1916), Chapter 6.
Porphyry (philosopher) (233–301) Neoplatonist philosopher
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Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures
Context: Things essentially incorporeal, because they are more excellent than all body and place, are every where, not with interval, but impartibly.
Things essentially incorporeal are not locally present with bodies but are present with them when they please; by verging towards them so far as they are naturally adapted so to verge. They are not, however, present with them locally, but through habitude, proximity, and alliance.
Things essentially incorporeal, are not present with bodies, by hypostasis and essence; for they are not mingled with bodies. But they impart a certain power which is proximate to bodies, through verging towards them. For tendency constitutes a certain secondary power proximate to bodies.
“The limits of trust depend much on whether you mean to do business more than once.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 20 (p. 442)
“Polyamory — that's where you're freely confessed that you have more than one lover at a time.”
John Perry Barlow (1947–2018) American poet and essayist
Planet JH Weekly interview (2005)
Context: Polyamory — that's where you're freely confessed that you have more than one lover at a time. And actually I'm less that way than I used to be, but I was trying to make people understand, that at least for some folks, this was a fairly natural state. And instead of skulking around about it that we'd all do better to avoid the deceit and be honest.
Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)
2021, January, Presidential Inaugural Address (2021)
Kurt Tucholský (1890–1935) German-Jewish journalist, satirist and writer
Original: (de) Im übrigen gilt ja hier derjenige, der auf den Schmutz hinweist, für viel gefährlicher als der, der den Schmutz macht.
Letter to Herbert Ihering, August 10. 1922
