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Disraeli, Benjamin. Henrietta Temple. London: Henry Colburn, 1837, bk. 6, ch. 9.

No one can stop a ticking clock, but the great ones, the great ones always find a way to slow it down.

Draft Day

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Draft Day. Directed by Ivan Reitman, Summit Entertainment/OddLot Entertainment/Montecito Picture Company, 2014.

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Johnson, Samuel. "Pope." Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. London: C. Bathurst, et al., 1781.

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Johnson, Samuel. "Pope." The Lives of the Poets: A Selection, edited by Roger Lonsdale. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Lewis, C.S. The Screwtape Letters. Geoffrey Bles, 1942, no. 25.

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Young, Edward. The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality. London: R. Dodsley, 1742, Night 1, I. 393.

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Young, Edward. Edward Young: Night Thoughts, edited by Stephen Cornford. Cambridge University Press, 2008, Night 1, I. 393.

What's not destroyed by Time's devouring hand?
Where's Troy, and where's the May-pole in the Strand?

James Bramston

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Bramston, James. The Art of Politics. London: Lawton Gilliver, 1729.

Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.

Ray Cummings

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

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

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De Lamartine, Alphonse. "Le Lac [The Lake]." Recueillements poétiques [Poetic Meditations]. Paris: Imp P. Didot L'aine, 1820.

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Raleigh, Walter. Even Such is Time. London, c. 1618, I. 1.

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Raleigh, Walter. "Even Such is Time." Great Short Poems. Dover Publications, 2000, I. 1.

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Watts, Isaac. "Our God, Our Help in Ages Past." The Psalms of David: Imitated in the Language of the New Testament, and Applied to the Christian State and Worship. London: J. Clark, 1719.

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Mann, Thomas. Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1924, ch. 7.

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Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Everyman's Library, 2005, ch. 7.

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Scott, Walter, Sir. Harold the Dauntless. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co. /London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817, canto 1, st. 4.

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Shakespeare, William. Richard II. 9 Dec. 1595, The house of Edward Hoby, Westminster, London, England, UK, act 5, sc. 5.

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Shakespeare, William. "Richard the Second." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 5.

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Aristotle. Φυσικὴ ἀκρόασις Phusike akroasis [Physics]. 4th century BC.

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Aristotle. Physics, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 60, I. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 60.

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Aeschylus. The Libation Bearers. c. 458 BC, Athens, Greece.

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Aeschylus. "The Libation Bearers." The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides, edited and translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 1984.

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Virgil. Georgica [Georgics]. c. 29 BCE, bk. 3.

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Virgil. "The Georgics." The Eclogues and The Georgics, translated by C. Day Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 3.

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Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. c. 429 BC, Theatre of Dionysus, Athens, Greece.

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Sophocles. "Oedipus Rex." The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Mariner Books, 2002.