Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.

Ray Cummings

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Topic

Nature of time Time

Speaker

The Big Business Man

Author

Ray Cummings

Language

English

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Writer

From

United States

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Original Citation

Cummings, Ray. "The Girl in the Golden Atom." All-Story Weekly, Mar. 1919.

Current Citation

Cummings, Ray. The Girl in the Golden Atom. University of Nebraska Press, 2005, ch. 5.

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The chief business of the American people is business.

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Topic
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Source
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Medium
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Language
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Time
1925 1920s 20th century
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Coolidge, Calvin. "The Press Under a Free Government." American Society of Newspaper Editors meeting. 17 Jan. 1925, Washington, DC, USA.

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

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Topic
Passage of time Time Comeuppance
Speaker
Clown

Author

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Source
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Medium
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Genre
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Language
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Time
1602 1600s 17th century
Era
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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night, Or What You Will. 1602, Middle Temple Hall, London, England, UK, act 5, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Twelfth Night." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 1.