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When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great…
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Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and…
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I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my own was…
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I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant…
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I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing…
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While our bodies move ever forward on the time line, our minds continuously trace backward, seeking shape and meaning as deftly as…
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I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.
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All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.
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Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by being on the…
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Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of our lives…
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I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to…
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Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people...
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The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy.
— Michele Bachmann
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Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs…
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My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top.…
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Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two…
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The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the…
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We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the…
— Bill Bryson
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You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge…
— Graydon Carter
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[Locating, from scratch, the gene related to a disease is like] trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located…
— Francis Collins
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[S]uppose you make a hole in an ordinary evacuated electric light bulb and allow the air molecules to pass in at the…
— Francis William Aston
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Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.
— Thomas Friedman
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It's a slow process, but it is scary, because if someone can control your energy sources, they can control you. We are…
— Mike Thompson
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As important as it is to change the light bulbs, its more important to change the laws
— Al Gore
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