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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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Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.
— Tony Blair
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The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues…
— Michael Bloomberg
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I never worry about action, but only inaction.
— Winston Churchill
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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
— Jerry Brown
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Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling…
— William James
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The non-action of the wise man is not inaction. It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything. The sage is…
— Zhuangzi
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Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of…
— Denis Waitley
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Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
— Bill Gates
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Action always beats inaction.
— T. Harv Eker
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The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The only way to achieve something in the interior world is let-go - a kind of effortlessness, a relaxation. It is not…
— Rajneesh
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Drastic action can be costly, but it can be less expensive than continuing inaction.
— Richard Neustadt
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