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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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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
— Frank Leahy
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A diet of violence or pornography dulls the senses, and future exposures need to be rougher and more extreme. Soon the person…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their…
— Rudolf Rocker
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Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to be a…
— Fran Tarkenton
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The dust comes secretly day after day, Lies on my ledge and dulls my shining things. But O this dust I shall…
— Unknown Author
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If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. ... But that's…
— Daniel H. Pink
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Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.
— Barbara Johnson
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Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.
— Mary Daly
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The things you do not have to say make you rich. Saying the things you do not have to say weakens your…
— William Stafford
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I have my misgivings about 3-D. I don't like the lack of blacks and whites, how it dulls the image, how the…
— Alfonso Cuaron
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Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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