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Ide-ide tentang waktu adalah seperti pakaian musim: mereka sewenang-wenang, sebanyak yang dipaksakan oleh kehendak superior yang jarang eksplisit. Mereka utilitarian dan politis, instrumen pemerintahan yang berjalan mulus. Asli: The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.
