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41 " O it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock. "
42 " Steady as a clock busy as a bee and cheerful as a cricket. "
43 " Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of not being late in the morning. "
44 " My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing. "
45 " History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be. "