When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities.
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The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.
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People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.
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The current account deficit is a ticking time bomb. We don't know when it s going to explode, but it cannot continue the way the White House describes.
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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.
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Oh! mock not the poniarded heart. The stabbed man knows the steel; prate not to him that it is only a ticking feather.
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It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?
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If you ask a member of this generation two simple questions: How do you want the world to be in fifty years? and What do you want your life to be like five years from now? the answers are quite often preceded by Provided there is still a world and Provided I am still alive. To the often-heard question, Who are they, this new generation? one is tempted to answer, Those who hear the ticking. And to the other question, Who are they who utterly deny them? the answer may well be, Those who do not know, or refuse to face, things as they really are.
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People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking.
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Never date a woman you can hear ticking.
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