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2->'''Lucoa:''' In the human world fashions are changing all the time! Something taken from decades ago is already deprecated. \
3'''Elma:''' Decades!? That's as short as a blink!\
4'''Lucoa:''' Their flow of time is different from ours, you know?
5-->-- ''[[Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Elma's OL Diary]]''
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7[[AC: Fanfiction]]
8-> '''Optimus:''' Adam, where are the rest of the White Fang?
9-> '''Adam:''' On leave. Nothing's happening right now, and we're not criminals anymore, so why not? Five years is a long time to go without a break.
10-> '''Optimus:''' I'll have to remember that the next time I'm stationed at an outpost for five hundred thousand years.
11-> '''Adam:''' (''Wincing'') Sorry.
12-> '''Optimus:''' Don't be. It was a good time, or as good a time as any in this war. And I suspect our perspectives on time are a little... different.
13-->-- ''Fanfic/SparkToSparkDustToDust''
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15[[AC:Films -- Live-Action]]
16->'''Volstagg:''' Is it just me, or does Earth look a little different to you now?\
17'''Sif:''' It has been a thousand years.\
18'''Volstagg:''' Well, changes happen so fast. I mean, you leave for a millennium and look at the state of the place!
19-->-- ''Film/{{Thor}}'', (deleted scene)
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21->''"We operate in a very different time reference. You might say all this is happening between the ticks of your watch or the beats of your heart."''
22-->-- '''Alien''', ''Film/EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers''
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24[[AC:Literature]]
25->On the whole, small things don't live a long time. But perhaps they do live ''fast''.
26-->-- ''[[Literature/NomesTrilogy Truckers]]''
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28->She gnawed at her lip and contemplated [[MayflyDecemberRomance the chasm]] between eight hundred years and twenty-six. How young did she seem? How small was the whole of her life? It was no wonder he seemed crazy.
29-->-- ''Ghost Devlin -- Devil out of Time'': [[https://kittyunpretty.com/coatimundi-chapter-eight/ Chapter 8]]
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31[[AC:Live-Action TV]]
32->''"Haven't you learned after all these years not to view time through conventional eyes?"''
33-->-- '''Annorax''', ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E8YearOfHell Year of Hell]]"
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35[[AC:Music]]
36->''And how long ago it was now I never can explain\
37By the clock that's on the tower\
38Or the one that's in my brain.''
39-->-- '''Jim's Big Ego''', ''The Ballad of [[ComicBook/TheFlash Barry Allen]]''
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41[[AC:Tabletop Games]]
42 ->'''[[LoveableRogue Drekki Flynt]]:''' Come on, we go way back, you and me.
43-> '''Ramarius:''' Your life, long as it is compared to some, Drekki, is an insect’s buzz to we [[OurDragonsAreDifferent draconith]]. I have known you moments.
44-->-- "Ghosts of Barak-Minoz," ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar''
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46[[AC:Webcomics]]
47->''"So typically mortal. You never look to the long term. You build your cities right where glaciers will come screaming through in 200,000 years."''
48-->-- '''Lich''', ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'', [[https://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/03/18/episode-396-hes-back/ "He's Back"]]
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50->'''Reverend Theo:''' The margin of error in your guess at your own age is [[TimeAbyss bigger than the age of my whole species]].\
51'''Vog:''' Like I said, I am having trouble understanding your perspective.
52-->-- ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''
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54[[AC:Western Animation]]
55->''"You see, for me, time moves backwards and forwards and... oh, why am I bothering? You're fourteen."''
56-->-- '''[[TimeMaster Clockwork]]''', ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''
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58->'''Amethyst:''' We're going to see Mike Krol. He's got that real garage vibe. Songs about being nostalgic for the suburbs.\
59'''Pearl:''' [[{{Hipster}} Nostalgic for the suburbs? Pfft. They've only existed for what, 70 years?]]
60-->-- ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS4E6LastOneOutOfBeachCity Last One Out of Beach City]]"
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