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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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Imagine that you wanted your children to learn the names of all their cousins, aunts and uncles. But you never actually let…
— Unknown Author
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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…
— Alan Lightman
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I definitely don't want to have kids ... I don't think I'd be a great mother. I'm a great aunt or friend…
— Chelsea Handler
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I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt,
— Ann B. Davis
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My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had…
— Laura Linney
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I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was, I think,…
— Eric Dickerson
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I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what I have…
— William Butler Yeats
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No, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her…
— Tobsha Learner
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When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great…
— Christopher Hitchens
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My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.
— David Nicholls
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Why is it so much easier to talk to a stranger? why do we feel we need to disconnect in order to…
— David Levithan
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