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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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People have learned by bitter experience that the "European fraternal union of peoples" cannot be achieved by mere phrases and pious wishes,…
— Friedrich Engels
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People have learned how to strum a guitar, but they don't have the soul. They don't feel it from the heart. It…
— Lightnin' Hopkins
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Some people have learned to earn well but they haven't learned to live well.
— Jim Rohn
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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,…
— Alan Lightman
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People have learned to escape Reality very well but too often lose their way back.
— Eugene J. Martin
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The most creative people have learned to tolerate the slight discomfort of indecision for much longer and so, just because they put…
— John Cleese
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Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy…
— Elie Wiesel
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These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been…
— Anton Chekhov
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I don't know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than…
— Lawrence Block
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To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a…
— Daniel Dennett
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The basic premise of this is that, yes, people have learned to clone each other, but that cloning is illegal. Not that…
— Roger Spottiswoode
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