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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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Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme…
— Camille Paglia
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Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.
— Agathon
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It is so much easier to deal with the dead than with the living. The dead are out of the way, merely…
— Aleksandar Hemon
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Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so…
— Nelson Mandela
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Why cry about missed opportunities when you have the ability to smile at opportunities lived? The past has created who you are…
— Greg Plitt
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For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
— Henry A. Kissinger
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It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude…
— May Sarton
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I knew something as I watched: almost everyone was saying goodbye to me. I was becoming one of the many little-girl-losts. They…
— Alice Sebold
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What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are,…
— Mario Puzo
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Huizi would say, never look back to the past. Never regret. Even if there is emptiness ahead, never look back.
— Xiaolu Guo
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Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could…
— Alan Lightman
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