He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways. - Ovid - Quotesmemo.com

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Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and at its beginning. She died at 6:08 or 3:46, we say, or the baby was born at 4:02. But in between we slosh through huge swatches of time--weeks, months, years, decades even.

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Ovid

He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.

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Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and at its beginning. She died at 6:08 or 3:46, we say, or the baby was born at 4:02. But in between we slosh through huge swatches of time--weeks, months, years, decades even.

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