"Four hundred years is but a moment in 10,000 years. Time is curved, time is braided. Throw out your clocks."

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Source : Howard Mansfield (2010). “Turn and Jump: How Time & Place Fell Apart”, p.218, Down East Books

Howard Mansfield

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“You've only got a short shelf-life as an actor, and I want to make the most of it while I can.”
“The breeze and the dew make tranquil the clear dawn; Behind the curtain there is one who alone is up betimes. The orioles sing and the flowers smile - Whose then, after all, is the Spring?”
“I'm a great believer in the character of the club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have.”
“Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.”
“Now that I'd experienced being a woman to a man I was in love with, I'd become self-conscious about being a woman to the world in general. Of course, being female is always indelicate and extreme, like operating heavy machinery. Every woman knows the feeling of being a stack of roving flesh. Sometimes all you've accomplished by the end of the day is to have maneuvered your body through space without grave incident.”
“It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high.”
“One of the central developments of 19th century mathematics involved a dramatic increase in the standards of mathematical rigor. This was for a variety of reasons, but the short version is that there was a need to be stricter about the standards of proof, because certain familiar modes of reasoning had started to lead people astray, or at least threatened to do so.”
“I want my ex-wife and children to be happy.”

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