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Alan Lightman has 65 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and…
— Milton Friedman
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When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. If he's got money, he buys and he buys and he…
— Burl Ives
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I used to think a wedding was a simple affair. Boy and girl meet, they fall in love, he buys a ring,…
— Steve Martin
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Of course kids should pay taxes.Tell littlie johnny if he wants to ride his bicycle on the sidewalk instead of in the…
— Jim Rohn
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A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
— Stanley Kubrick
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To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where…
— Robertson Davies
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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition. A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of…
— Alan Lightman
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Satan is so much more in earnest than we are--he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will…
— Amy Carmichael
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I think on my next birthday, I'm going to buy her a present. I think that should be the tradition. The kid…
— Stephen Chbosky
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Although it hurts Ill be the first to say that I was wrong Oh, I know Im probably much too late To…
— Superman
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He calls, you answer. He buys you gifts, you accept. He hurts you again, you regret it. Now do you remember why…
— Enhance Dreams
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