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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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Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It is long been a principal of ours that one is no more armed because he has possession of a firearm than…
— Jeff Cooper
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But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring…
— Ayn Rand
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I saw a Velveeta commercial, and it was playing, I think, 'Burning Love.' [Jackson] had approved it-that's something we can't control. He…
— Lisa Marie Presley
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When doing a job — any job — one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain…
— Hyman Rickover
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My little brother Paul. He owns his own floor sanding business called Silly P Hardwood Floors and hes really good.
— Amy Sedaris
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Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper.
— Warren Buffett
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God doesn't need us to give Him our money. He owns everything. Tithing is God's way to grow Christians.
— Adrian Rogers
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Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing…
— Herman Melville
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Jay-Z ain't a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this; he been through the game for a long time,…
— Meek Mill
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A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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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