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Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present,…
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and…
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With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the…
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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost…
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In…
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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not…
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and…
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We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or…
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All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for…
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There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after…
— Jane Campion
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As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for…
— Tony Campolo
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Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
— Winston Churchill
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You can't pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It's not something that disappears when you're tired.
— Pat Summitt
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The Marines fought almost solely on esprit de corps, I was certain. It was inconceivable to most Marines that they should let…
— Robert Sherrod
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... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of…
— Philip Zimbardo
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There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.
— Albert Camus
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It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can…
— Norman Lear
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One of the most awesome things about sports, particularly team sports, is that everything you need to do to be successful on…
— Sheila Cornell-Douty
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It is a fair question whether the results of these things have induced among us in a large class of well-to-do people,…
— Wilbur Olin Atwater
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Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to…
— Melody Beattie
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Responsible, who wants to be responsible? Whenever something bad happens, it's always, who's responsible for this?
— Jerry Seinfeld
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