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Time Frame (Split Second, #2) Time Frame by Douglas E. Richards
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“Trying to get Congress to pull in one direction is worse than herding cats. It’s herding self-interested, narcissistic, opportunistic cats. Who only care about getting reelected, no matter how much they pretend to care about their constituencies.”
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“Sometimes there are no good decisions, only impossible ones. Which doesn’t—necessarily—make those forced to make these decisions evil.”
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“Time flies like an arrow . . . but fruit flies like a banana.” —Unknown  (often attributed to Groucho Marx)”
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“Trying to get Congress to pull in one direction is worse than herding cats. It’s herding self-interested, narcissistic, opportunistic cats.”
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“I’ve taken such a giant step onto that slope that I’ve slid straight down to the cesspool at its bottom.”
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“Duplicity (Noun) Deceitfulness in speech or conduct; double-dealing. Synonyms: deceit, deception, fraud, guile, trickery. The state or quality of having two elements or parts; being twofold or double. —Dictionary.com”
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“Double, double, toil and trouble;
  Fire burn, and caldron bubble.” —Shakespeare (Macbeth)”
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“Look,” said the Speaker, “the founders purposely designed our government so that passing legislation isn’t easy. Trying to get Congress to pull in one direction is worse than herding cats. It’s herding self-interested, narcissistic, opportunistic cats. Who only care about getting reelected, no matter how much they pretend to care about their constituencies.”
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“There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge.” —Rod Serling, excerpted from The Twilight Zone, opening narration, season one “You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind.” —Rod Serling, opening narration, season two (and perhaps the better known version)”
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“Kill one man and you’re a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you’re a conqueror. Kill them all, and you’re a god.”
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“Kill one man and you’re a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you’re a conqueror.”
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“Luck favors the prepared mind, Major Long,” said Li, quoting Louis Pasteur.”
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“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to kill, and a time to heal.” —Partial excerpts from Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, King James Bible “Time flies like an arrow . . . but fruit flies like a banana.” —Unknown  (often attributed to Groucho Marx)”
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“I don’t know what weapons will be used to fight World War III. But World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” —Albert Einstein”
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“don’t know what weapons will be used to fight World War III. But World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” —Albert Einstein”
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“Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care—about time? If so, I can’t imagine why We’ve all got time enough to cry.” —Chicago, Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? “For those who think the world is obsessed with ‘time,’ the Oxford dictionary added support to the theory Thursday when they announced that the word time is the most often used noun in the English language.” —NBCNEWS.com (6/22/2016)—based on an analysis of almost three billion words culled from the Internet. With respect to knowing what time it is, or caring, the currently accepted worldwide definition of one second is: “The duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium-133 atom.” This is measured by atomic clocks that are accurate to within one second over a period of fifteen billion years—roughly the age of the universe.”
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“Time flies like an arrow . . . but fruit flies like a banana.”
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“If we lost all the dead space inside our atoms, we would each be able to fit into a particle of dust, and the entire human race would fit into the volume of a sugar cube.”
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“Jews make up 0.2 percent of the world population, they make up 27 percent of Nobel physics laureates.”
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“This supercoiling is nature’s way of fitting three billion base pairs of DNA inside a microscopic cell. If you uncoiled the DNA in a single cell and stretched it out, it would be over six feet long.”
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“There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge.” —Rod Serling, excerpted from The Twilight Zone, opening narration, season one”
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“rational”
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“The force is with us all.”
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“assume I’ll be driving in the opposite direction from the decoy pickup truck,” said Vargas.”
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“You know that’s not the entire quote,” said Knight. “It’s, ‘Kill one man and you’re a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you’re a conqueror. Kill them all, and you’re a god.”
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“To use the system to take out an entire building, let alone a city, you’d have to widen the beam a hundred- or a thousand”
Douglas E. Richards, Time Frame
“You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind.” —Rod Serling, opening narration, season two (and perhaps the better known version)”
Douglas E. Richards, Time Frame
“The duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium-133 atom.” This is measured by atomic clocks that are accurate to within one second over a period of fifteen billion years—roughly the age of the universe.”
Douglas E. Richards, Time Frame
“I don’t know what weapons will be used to fight World War III.”
Douglas E. Richards, Time Frame
“There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge.” —Rod Serling, excerpted from The Twilight Zone, opening narration, season one “You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind.” —Rod Serling, opening narration, season two (and perhaps the better known version)”
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