“Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.”

— Herbert Spencer

Definitions, as quoted in The Dictionary of Essential Quotations (1983) by Kevin Goldstein-Jackson, p. 154

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English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent … 1820–1903

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