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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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Third, we will continue to draw on our substantial counterterrorism capabilities to prevent ISIL attacks. Working with our partners, we will redouble…
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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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Perhaps the real point of life is simply to wear us down until we have no choice but to start abandoning our…
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But the true threats to stability and peace are these nations that are not very transparent, that hide behind the-that don't let…
— George W. Bush
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Comedy [deals] with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.
— Chris Bliss
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Common sense told us that to preserve the peace, we'd have to become strong again after years of weakness and confusion. So,…
— Ronald Reagan
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Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been…
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An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because…
— David Foster Wallace
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Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But…
— Rollo May
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Eventually we must lower our defenses and just trust our instincts. Trust your gut and just let things happen. Trust that your…
— Wendell V
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