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“In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.”

Men God Problem Time Century Twentieth Century Nineteenth Century God Is Dead

Author:Erich Fromm

“Decades go faster toward the end of a century.”

Ends Time Century Decades Faster

Book:Mysteries of motion

Source: Mysteries of motion

“Time in China has no immediacy as in America. Here I find the swift passage of our few earthly years accepted as naturally as the fall of flower and leaf. ... I hear and speak a language in which grammar has no tense. Both scholars and illiterates, in ordinary daily speech, tell an event of centuries ago as casually as an incident of the hour. Only as my knowledge has accumulated have I been able to know whether something related happened just then or in some past dynasty.”

Knows Years Able America Past Time Fall Speak Language Hours Happened Century Events Flower Speech Ordinary China Accepted Related Passages Scholar Leafs Grammar Incidents Tense Dynasty Immediacy

Author:Nora Waln

“The centuries will burn rich loads With which we groaned, Whose warmth shall lull their dreaming lids, While songs are crooned: But they will not dream of us poor lads, Left in the ground.”

Dream Time Song Left Poor Rich Century Warmth Load Lad Lulls

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)