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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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If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
— Robert Frost
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Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.
— J I Packer
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Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.
— Unknown Author
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it…
— Ayn Rand
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It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme…
— Harry S. Truman
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There is nothing worse than a life filled with adversity from which nothing good ever comes.
— Charles Stanley
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Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may…
— Thomas More
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How dare we, all these stupid evangelists walking around telling men after they've made some little prayer that they need to write…
— Paul Washer
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I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end…
— Ford Madox Ford
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All the selling out talk is really overrated, the funny thing is it hardly ever comes from bands, it comes from some…
— Tom DeLonge
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For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the…
— Lewis Hyde
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If the day ever comes when I can swallow defeat, I'll quit.
— Toe Blake
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