#duration

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit. ↗

— John Zimmerman

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Time is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling. ↗

— John Draper

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From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war. ↗

— Richard Cobden

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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation. ↗

— Peter Marshall

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I demonstrated the characteristics of experimental fever. It appears after an incubation period which is never less than five days. It follows the same pattern as natural fever in man, but is of shorter duration and less pronounced. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

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Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory. ↗

— William Law

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All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration. ↗

— Nicholas Culpeper

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(…) Real time is not a unitary strand distributing homogeneous units of past, present and future in a fixed empirical order, but is rather a complex, interactive, « thick » manifold of distinct yet integrated durations. p22 ↗

— Sanford Kwinter

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I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

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