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The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.
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Fast drivers can see no further than slow drivers, but they must look further down the road to time their reactions safely.…
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The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication,…
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True intimacy is a human constant. People of all types find it equally hard to achieve, equally precious to hold. Age, education,…
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Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural wholes, static…
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That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines our defenses,…
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Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.
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At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains;…
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Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.
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We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie…
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If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look…
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The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves.
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
— Raymond Chandler
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Quite often, when an idea that could be helpful presents itself, we do not appreciate it, for it is so inconspicuous. The…
— George Polya
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The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.
— Robert Grudin
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Sometimes in the afternoon sky the moon would pass white as a cloud, furtive, lusterless, like an actress who does not have…
— Marcel Proust
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Memory is a capricious and arbitrary creature. You never can tell what pebble she will pick up from the shore of life…
— Henry Van Dyke
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Think of it: the lowest common denominator in being digital is not your operating system, modem, or model of computer. It's a…
— Nicholas Negroponte
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the longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to copy the whole dictation of existence to the…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Ordinarily, of course, I thought it best to remain inconspicuous, but the gesture had a certain irresistable theatricaility, and an inevitablility. Sometimes…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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...but I’m trying to be inconspicuous.” Cinder considered telling him it wasn't working but thought better of it. The lack of a…
— Marissa Meyer
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National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little…
— Carl Sagan
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Ice cubes likely sell more alcohol for the distilling industry than attractive models in cheesecake poses. The inconspicuous ice cubes often hide…
— Wilson Bryan Key
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Inconspicuous virtue brings conspicuous reward.
— Senoraroy
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